Buy masks for your neighbours – Health Minister appeals to Ghanaians

The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has appealed to the conscience of Ghanaians who have the means to buy nose masks for others who cannot afford it.

With the government intensifying its efforts to get the public to wear masks to veil themselves against the dreaded coronavirus, the minister said it was time for the proverbial Ghanaian generosity to be shown.

According to him, the collective efforts of all would help the national struggle in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

He noted that although mask-wearing could help stop the spread of the disease, many were not wearing it because they could not afford it.

Mr Agyeman Manu made the appeal at the stakeholders’ weekly briefing on COVID-19 in Accra on Tuesday, May 5, 2020.

He said the country could win the coronavirus fight if everyone got involved in the fight, adding that getting everyone masked was one of the collective ways by which the country could fight the virus together.

According to him, helping one another had been the way of life of Ghanaians and that this was the time such virtues were most needed.

Mr Agyeman Manu noted that although masks were now available on the streets at affordable prices, not everyone would have the means to buy one, hence thwarting the national efforts of getting everyone masked at risk.

“I know if it (mask) is GHC1, some of us may not get the money to buy”, he said.

He has, therefore, called on churches, companies and other benevolent organisations and individuals to help procure masks for those who could not afford one.

Mr Agyeman Manu also encouraged everyone to wear masks, saying “when you are having your devotion, wear a mask because wherever two or three people meet, there should be a mask.”