Ghana marks ‘World No Tobacco Day’
June 1, 2021
Ghana yesterday joined the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s.World No Tobacco Day. at Nsawam in the Eastern Region with a call on the public to quit smoking.
The programme, which was on the theme ‘Commit to quit’, was attended by representatives of the World HealthOrganisation(WHO), Ghana Health Service (GHS), market leaders and members of transport unions and National Union of Ghana Students, among other categories of people.
The Minister of Health, MrKwakuAgyeman-Manu, in a speech read on his behalf by his Chief Director, Mr KwabenaBoadu Oku-Afari, said tobacco had devastating effects on the respiratory system, which increases the incidence of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases; cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases, and put people with these conditions at higher risk of developing severe illness when affected by Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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The leadership of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has called on students in the various Senior High Schools to desist from resorting to violence as a means to solving problems.
This call was made during the 35th annual congress of the Greater Accra Regional Students Representative Council (GARSRC) which was organized on Saturday, April 24, 2021. GARSRC is a student representative body comprising all government assisted Senior High Schools in the Greater Accra Region as well as a few private ones. The congress was on the theme “Education amidst crisis”. This was a platform where the various student leaders from member institutions shared their perspectives on how best the standards of Senior High School education can be maintained in the post lockdown era.