𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗖 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.

 

Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.

After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).

In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.

The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.

This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.

Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.

So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.

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World Market Prices on fuel determines pricing at the local pumps: NPA

 Story by GBCs Isaac Asare

NPA Boss and his entourage in a pose with staff of UE Reg Coordinating Council

The Head of Pricing at the National Petroleum Authority, NPA Abass Ibrahim Tasunti says in the face of perpetual hikes in the prices of petroleum on the world market, his outfit as a concerned regulator will continue to play its monitoring role in ensuring that Oil Marketing Companies give fair pricing to petroleum products so that consumers are not cheated. 

He noted that since the pricing of petroleum products in the country was deregulated in July 2015, government has been handicapped in determining the pricing of petroleum products because as prices go up on the international market, imported refined products such as petrol, LPG and diesel are indirectly affected at the local pumps. 

Mr Tasunti made the revelation during a media interaction in Bolgatanga as part of a two day day working visit to the Upper East Region by the management of the NPA led by its CEO, Mustapha Hamid. Areas visited by the NPA team includes the Regional Police Command where discussions were held with the Regional Police Commander, on matters of security for staff of the NPA and as well as protection of the region’s territorial borders against fuel smuggling. The last point of call was at the Paga border where the CEO and his entourage met with officials of the Ghana Immigration Service.

 The visit forms part of a 5-day familiarization tour to offices and installations that come under its jurisdiction. The CEO of the NPA, Mustapha Hamid in the company of other directors from the downstream industry made their entry into the region with a visit to the Bulk Oil Storage, BOST facility in Bolgatanga to familiarize himself with their operations, know their challenges and chart the way forward in making the strategic stock location a preferred hub in the constant supply of adequate petroleum to neighbouring Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and other Saharan markets. 

CEO of NPA, Mustapha Hamid 

The Bolgatanga BOST depot is a strategic stock location that receives supply of petroleum products from Buipe, through a pipeline of over 260 kilometers. The facility which is among the six operational depots stretched across the country is expected to ensure constant supply of petroleum products both within and outside the country.  Meanwhile, the team earlier made a brief visit to the Regional Coordinating Council to announce his presence and were met on arrival by the Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Mahamadu Azonko who seized the platform to brief them on happenings in the region.

The CEO of the NPA, Mustapha Hamid for his part said the NPA was bent addressing the security and safety concern of its staff and more importantly deal with the fuel smuggling among other illegalities. At a media briefing to round up the tour, some directors at the NPA were subjected to questions from the media that border on hikes in petroleum prices, illegal citing of fuel stations and smuggling among others.

 On the increasing rise of fuel products, the Head of Pricing at the NPA, Abass Ibrahim Tasunti said since the country was exposed to the changes on the world market with regards to petroleum, there was little government could do to determine fuel pricing. However, his outfit is working in tandem with government to help cushion consumers. One of such interventions, he stated was the implementation of the energy sector levy.

Head of Pricing at the NPA, Abass Ibrahim Tasunti

Among the top officials that accompanied the NPA boss include the Head of Gas, Madam Intiwaa Kwakye, Director of Corporate Affairs, Maria Ocquaye, Director of Monitoring and Inspection, Esther Awuku and the Regional Manager of the NPA, Osman Mahama and a host of other directors. The team is scheduled to tour the Northern, Upper West, Bono and Ashanti Regions.

 

GBC NEWS                   END             

Confirmed Case of Avian Influenza Recorded in Bolgatanga

 The Upper East Regional Directorate of Agriculture has confirmed case of Avian Influenza (H5) at Zaare Community in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region.

The  Regional Rapid Response Team has moved swiftly to contain and prevent the spread of the disease by depopulating the affected farms while measures have been instituted to restrict the movement of poultry and products from affected farms.

 The Upper East Regional Veterinary Officer in Charge of Personnel, Data and Information, Robert Bayou, expressed disbelief over the reported cases of importation of birds from neighbouring countries, especially when the closure of the borders is still in force

 Poultry farmers in the Region have been entreated to intensify bio-security measures at their farms and report any case of suspected case of Avian Influenza to the nearest Veterinary Office.

Mr. Bayou allayed the fear of residents amid  confirmation of the Avian Influenza.

GBC NEWS

UER: NEDCO/VRA To Embark On Mass Disconnection Exercise

 

Billing and Revenue Protection  Officer of NEDCO, Ing. William Kwame Asare

The Upper East Regional Office of the Northern Electricity Department of the Volta River Authority, VRA, says it will on Monday January 31, 2022 begin a mass disconnection exercise to enable them retrieve debts owed the company and to mobilize revenue to improve on its operations.

It also disclosed that defaulters have accumulated arrears to the tune of 68 million Ghana Cedis, with the highest defaulters being state institutions with arrears of 9 million Ghana Cedis as against postpaid billing of a 178,000 Ghana Cedis.

The Regional Billing and Revenue Protection  officer of NEDCO, Engineer William Kwame Asare, who made the pronouncement stated that staff from the Tamale office will be assisting his outfit to execute the intended disconnection exercise.

He, however, advised defaulting customers  to do the needful to avoid disconnection, adding that those with huge arrears can make  at least part payment of their outstanding and current debts whilst they take time to offset the remaining amount owed the company.

GBCs Gladys Apuweni/Isaac Asare       END

UER: REGSEC Imposes Ban on Motorbike Riding on Bawku

 

Deceased Police Officer

A policewoman, Constable Regina Angenu of the Paga Police Station is reported dead after being shot by some unknown assailants at Bawku in the Upper East Region. 

The Police in a statement said the incident occurred Sunday, January 23 at about 5pm when the deceased officer paid a visit to one Constable Erasmus Enkson of the Bawku Division of the MTTU. 

Report has it that the two were attacked by the unknown assailants while on their way to Constable Enkson’s barracks. 

Constable Angenu was shot in the groin and died afterwards on receiving treatment at the Bawku Presbyterian Mission Hospital. 

Her body has since been deposited at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital for preservation and autopsy. Meanwhile the Upper East Regional Security Council, REGSEC says it has followed with keen interest recent happenings and the volatile nature in the Bawku Township and has to that effect imposed an immediate ban on motorbike riding in the municipality and its environs.

 In a statement issued by the Office of the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council and signed by the Regional Minister, Mr. Stephen Yakubu, the ban is applicable to both sexes but does not include motor tricycles. REGSEC upon this directive has directed the Bawku Municipal Security Council to to treat the order with all the urgency it deserves and enforce it to the latter.

GBCs Isaac Asare 

Motorists cautioned against drunk driving ahead of Yuletide

The Upper East Regional Manager of the Drivers Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA), Al-Rashid Mohammed has admonished the motoring public to drive carefully and avoid drunk driving during the Yuletide. He maintained that when Drivers use the roads very professionally it will help prevent needless and avoidable deaths during the season. Mr. Mohammed gave this message in an exclusive interview with GBC URA-Radio in Bolgatanga. He further used the opportunity to encourage all vehicle owners who have been given Defective Vehicle (DV) number to avail their vehicles for Registration, since the DV number can not be use on the roads for more than one year without registration. Mr. Mohammed also wished all his staff and management of GBC URA-RADIO Merry Christmas and a productive and promising year, and pray for more collaboration in the years ahead.                       

GBC NEWS.                   END.       

Koforidua Jackson's Park To Be Redeveloped Into An Ultra Modern Facility

 

 The sod has been cut for the redevelopment of the Koforidua Jackson Park into an ultra-modern facility to give the park and the whole town a facelift. It will also intend help drive growth to ensure effective and efficient delivery of goods and services in the municipality. The event took place at the Jackson park in Koforidua in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region.

 The Project which is estimated at a cost of nine million, 930 thousand 484 point 85 Ghana cedis comprise basket and volleyball court, public stand with stores, electrical rooms and VIP stand, car park, restaurant with pubs, washroom swimming pools among others. The project which is under the Ghana Cities Support Programme with funding from the world bank   will be executed in four lots by four different contractors. The Municipal Chief Executive of New Juaben South, Mr Isaac Gyasi Appau, stated that the assembly is privileged to be part of 25 Assemblies benefiting from the projects in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

The Member of Parliament for New Juaben South who is also the Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Michael Okyere Baafi indicated observed that the reconstruction of the park will help to a large extent open up the place for economic and business activities which will lead to the country’s accelerated development. The Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong indicated that the social setting of every gathering will be now improved.

The Omanhene of the New Juaben Traditional Area, Daasebre Oti Boateng who presided over the function lauded the project which according to him will help to a large extent lead to a rapid development of the area. He however entreated them to adopt the culture of maintenance to enable the facility have longer lifespan. The project is under the construction of JABORAR Company Limited, PROCAL LINKS Company Limited, LICOS Enterprise Limited and PREFOS Limited. 

GBCs Priscilla Asante