The Savannah Regional Director of Ghana Well being Service, Dr Chrysantus Kubio, has acknowledged that Victims of Uncared for Tropical Illnesses (NTDs) undergo disfigurement and disabilities that have an effect on their lives and perpetuate a vicious cycle of poverty.
He mentioned the NTD programme through the years, has been resolute in its mission to eradicate NTDs by 2030.
He mentioned this throughout a Regional City Corridor advocacy assembly on NTDs organised by Ghana Well being Service on Wednesday in Ho, Volta Area.
In response to him, in Might 2022, World Imaginative and prescient Ghana (WVG), the NTD Ambassador, Rev. Dr. Joyce Aryee, the Intra-Nation Coordination Committee (ICCC) and Uncared for Tropical Illness Programme, collaborated to carry a Regional City Corridor Advocacy assembly within the Western Area to garner grassroots help and integrating optimistic initiatives into routine well being methods, sustained management and elimination of NTDs.
He was grateful to World Imaginative and prescient Ghana, USAID and all companions for the chance to duplicate the mannequin within the area as a result of it could function a convergence of strengths to fight stigma and advocate for very important water, sanitation, and hygiene services and unite a regional caucus of NTD Ambassadors.
He urged all companions to deal with the three strategic shifts outlined within the World NTDs Highway Map.
He requested the companions to prioritise influence over course of, guarantee heightened accountability and holistic well being options; combine inside nationwide well being methods and undertake complete interventions and bolster nationwide and sub-national possession to reinforce the viability and sustainability of NTD initiatives.
