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It’s been 26 years since Yaw died of malaria, but the circumstances of his death remains a daily reminder for his parents. This was more so for his father, Uncle Kobena. Anytime Uncle Kobena came across children he reckoned were his son’s age mates, his mind raced to memories of his deceased son.
Yaw was about five years when he died at the Abor clinic, a private health facility operated by one doctor Fennec, who is also deceased. The clinic, which has now been converted to a morgue, is located at the outskirt of Ekumfi Eyisam on the Accra-Mankessim road in the Ekumfi District of the Central region.
The mother of two Halima Abdulai, 34, came to Accra in 2015. Her decision to travel to Accra was based on the advice of her friend, Jemilatu Ibrahim, who had herself been in Accra since 2011. For Halima, circumstances necessitated she relocated from Savelugu in Ghana’s Northern Region to the national capital, Accra.
While in Accra she would be engaged as a head porter (Kayayoo) to earn a living. Losing her husband to a motor accident in Tamale only ten months after her second child, life was no longer bearable for her and her two children. Now a single mother and unemployed, survival instinct kicked, sending her first from Tamale to Savelugu to perch with her mother and her husband, a welder.
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Mother of two Halima Abdulai, 34, came to Accra in 2015. Her decision to travel to Accra was based on the advice of her friend, Jemilatu Ibrahim, who had herself been in Accra since 2011. For Halima, circumstances necessitated she relocated from Savelugu in Ghana’s Northern Region to the national capital, Accra.
While in Accra she would be engaged as a head porter (Kayayoo) to earn a living. Losing her husband to a motor accident in Tamale only ten months after her second child, life was no longer bearable for her and her two children. Now a single mother and unemployed, survival instinct kicked, sending her first from Tamale to Savelugu to perch with her mother and her husband, a welder.
Vicente Azumah, a survivor of malaria and resident of Ashaiman a suburb of Accra, says malaria is a cruel and deadly disease poise to threaten the survival of human beings on the African Continent and the world as a whole.