The Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom His Excellency Professor Kwaku Danso Boafo has pledged support for Mugabe and the United Kingdom’s National Cancer Action Team. He said cancer which killed Ghana first president Dr Kwame Nkrumah is a deadly disease which is killing many Ghanaians and welcomed the appointment of Mugabe as an ambassador to help lead the cancer awareness campaign into the Ghanaians communities in the UK, Ireland and in Ghana. He pledges his personal commitment for the campaign and said the Ghana embassy in the UK and the government of Ghana is ready do whatever is required of them to help the campaign.
The one time Minister of Health under the former President J.J Rawlings led NDC administration and until his appointment as Ghana ambassador a Professor of Public Health in Atlanta, USA said the health of every nation is the wealth of the nation. The ambassador who has introduced a lot of changes at the food served at the embassy and has insisted on regular and routine medical checks for the embassy’s staff since his arrival in the UK noted that, Ghanaians take health issues for granted and see a doctor only when they are sick. He said regular medical checks are very important to help prevent deaths from cancer and other similar diseases. He called on Ghanaians to stop living under the guides of blaming other people especially in situations when each and everything death is blamed on witchcraft and witches with the older in the Ghanaian society women being the most unfortunate victims of such blame games.
Professor Kwaku Danso Boafo was speaking during a call on him by a delegation led by Mr Ewan Allison of Spectrum radio network and a coordinator of the UK National Cancer Action team to officially introduce to him the newly appointed National Cancer Action Team ambassador for Ghana, Mr Mugabeof Radio Focus, London. He said the Ghana Higher Commission was ready to partner with the National Cancer Action Team, part of the UK’s National Health Service and Mugabe to carry the cancer awareness campaign to the doorsteps of Ghanaians.
On his part, Mr Ewan Allison said the aimed of the campaign being undertaken by the UK National Health Service through the National Cancer Action Team is to generate awareness about cancer; generate debate about cancer and to banish the culture myths that are associated with the disease both in Ghana and among Ghanaians in the UK. He noted that, cancer if diagnosed early can be cured in most cases, what was therefore needed is for people to undertake regular checks as early diagnoses of the disease was critical to a person chances of surviving cancer. He thanked the ambassador and the Government of Ghana for their commitment to the cancer aware campaign.
Mr Apreko of Fox FM, Kumasi, Moses of Asempa Radio in Accra and Millicent of www.iamaghanaian.com who were at the embassy to cover the event all pledged the support of their media houses towards the upcoming campaign.
Mugabe, the award winning host of the current affairs show – The Morning Focus on Radio Focus, a Ghanaian London based radio station which broadcast across Europe and also globally on internet assured Ghanaians of discharging his duties and responsibilities diligently and called on the Ghanaian media to help carry the cancer awareness campaign and those of other equally important diseases to the door steps of Ghanaians.