Takoradi, May 21, GNA – The Western Regional Child Protection Committee with support from the Regional Coordinating Council has supplied 3000 pieces of nose masks to children in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis.
The children were identified at the Sekondi, jubilee and Takoradi Central Markets with children in suburbs such as Kojokrom, New Takoradi and Ekuasi also taking part in the exercise.
Ms Joyce Obiri-Yeboah, Regional Director, Department of Community Development, who led the committee members to embark on the exercise encouraged parents to endeavour to buy nose masks for vulnerable children.
“It looks as if we are forgetting the children in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, but they are the ones who exercise their freedom by going out to meet friends and people sometimes at the blind side of parents and so providing them with masks and educating them to wear in the first place is a good step to stem the pandemic”, she added.
Ms Obiri-Yeboah said the nose masks have become part of the daily dressing of all individuals and must therefore be won appropriately just like how one wears attire and other necessary apparels, “we should not be pulling the nosemasks down our chins or even touch it once we put it on, but you see people flouting the rules all the time”.
The Committee members earlier, educated markets women and their children through the public address systems in the six areas visited.
Ms. Faustina Yorke Awotwe, the Regional Director of the Department of Children said the nose masks would be distributed to children of three years and above.
She entreated parents to take proper care of their children since they were vulnerable to infections, “We are still in talks with parents especially the market women to allow their children to stay at home”.
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