COVID 19: Let’s protect the aged – Togbe Afede

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By A.B. Kafui Kanyi, GNA

Ho, March 26, GNA – Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli
State, has charged traditional and local government authorities to protect the
aged in society as the country worked towards containing the Coronavirus
disease.

He said the aged remained the most vulnerable since the
outbreak of the pandemic and charged duty bearers to plan for their safety and
well-being.

“It must not be business as usual. Let’s be each other’s
keeper. Let’s show love. We’ve done enough politics. It’s time we come together
and be each other’s keeper,” Togbe Afede who is also the President of the
National House of Chiefs said.

He said this when he donated sanitizers and GH¢100,000.00 to
two hospitals in Ho for the Coronavirus fight.

The hospitals are; Ho Teaching Hospital-GH¢60,000.00 and Ho
Municipal Hospital-GH¢40,000.00.

Togbe Afede also gave over 2,200 hand sanitizers to the two
Hospitals and communities in the Asogli State.

He said the gesture was to support the facilities and
communities to fight the pandemic, urging traditional authorities to champion
environmental cleanliness and ensured that their subjects obeyed health
protocols from the World Health Organization and directives from President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Togbe Afede cautioned against abandoning the elderly to their
fate and asked that caregivers and duty bearers ensured that they went for
regular medical checkups and given prompt attention at health facilities.

He commended the hospitals for their efforts so far in combating
the disease and urged them to remain focused.

Dr. John Tampouri, Chief Executive of the Ho Teaching
Hospital, said the Volta Region was lucky not to have recorded any case yet and
described the gesture as timely.

He said the Hospital could not sustain the expenditure of GH¢240.00
daily on tissue paper for hand washing at the facility and called for more
support.

Dr. Lawrence Kumi, Medical Superintendent, Ho Municipal
Hospital, expressed gratitude to Togbe Afede and assured that the support would
be put to good use.

GNA