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The Ghanaian Paediatric Society has expressed a strong caution that Ghana may encounter a water importation crisis in the near future if immediate action is not taken to address the issue of illegal mining, also referred to as galamsey.
During an interview on Channel One TV’s Point of View, Dr. Hilda Manteebea Boye, President of the Society, discussed the serious impact of galamsey on Ghana’s health and water resources.
She raised serious worries about the increase in kidney diseases and failures in children, linking it to the pollution from illicit mining operations.
Dr. Boye emphasized that the health and lives of Ghana’s children and communities are in danger due to the destruction of water bodies and contamination of food sources. She urged stakeholders, especially political leaders, to come together and act promptly to address the galamsey problem.
She cautioned that without action, Ghana could potentially be forced to rely on importing water in the future, emphasizing that the health and future of the country are in jeopardy.
“We are seeing more new developmental problems that the children are having and indeed there are issues of kidney diseases, and kidney failures associated with the pollution. People are not getting safe food to eat, there’s destruction of the water bodies and children falling into pits.”
“We want the small-scale mining to be stopped. We want the political parties, all of them to commit to stopping this menace now because we are just afraid that in no time we may have to import water into the country.
“We are all sitting in Accra, and we are eating contaminated foods probably because food is coming all over the country and many of these areas are highly polluted.” he said.
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