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Condemn crave for funerals, says Health Minister
Akosombo (ER), July 8, Ghanadot/GNA
- The national crave for funerals came under scrutiny today
as Minister of Health, Major (rtd) Courage Quashigah
condemned what he called a national penchant for burial
festivities. He wondered also why funerals were gradually
emerging as the "most productive industry" in the country.
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Considering the high cost associated with funerals, Major
Quashigah said one could not understand the crave for them
when compared with other countries where the trend was how
to roll back mortality figures.
Major Quarshiegah said instead
of joining in the campaign to reduce death rates,
especially those resulting from motor accidents,
there was rather a national thirst to celebrated |
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Hon. Courage Quashigah |
funerals thus boosting costs
associated with prices of coffins and funeral fabrics.
Addressing District Directors of Health Services on the new
health paradigm shift at Akosombo in the Eastern Region on
Friday, Major Quashigah charged them to make funerals a less
lucrative venture to help reduce mortality figures which now
averaged 57 years for adults and 68 per 1000 births for
infants.
Major Quashigah said there was the need to rouse national
conscience against funerals by helping to reduce the allure
for the fabrics to celebrate, the extolling of the virtues
of death and the race to crown the nation as the best coffin
makers in the world.
The Health Minister said ignorance and diseases were the
main causes of the problem bedeviling Ghana and called for
a collective effort to help reduce them.
GNA
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