AMEND Foundation in collaboration with the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has organised a two-day workshop at Kukuom in the Ahafo region for health professionals and other relevant stakeholders.

The two-day workshop which brought together health personnel from all the six constituencies in the Ahafo region is geared towards bringing education on the COVID-19 pandemic to the doorsteps of the people.

In an interview with Hon.Ing. Kobby Amoah-Mensah said the model of the programme has an initial fifty (50) participants from the six constituencies in the Ahafo Region receiving training.

The participants per the nature of the model after their training are required to train another batch of 5,000 community volunteers who will engage in a community and unit based education on COVID-19.

Ing Kobby Amoa-Mensah, the Parliamentary the Asunafo South Parliamentary Candidate for the New Patriotic Party(NPP) and the Founder of AMEND Foundation told Ghanaweb that without proper understanding of COVID -19, all directives and measures aimed at combating the pandemic will be in vain.

He revealed their model of tackling COVID-19 through community based education has been well designed to yield better results as participants are going to be Ambassadors who will propel the fight in their communities.

“We are seeking to fight the spread of the pandemic using a different approach.

It is a kind of top to the bottom approach where the 50 trainers will become the fulcrum of the exercise. Per the model, they are expected to train more community volunteers, about 5,000 who will sensitise the community on the Coronavirus and all that they have to know about it.”

The Regional Director of the Food and Drugs Authority for the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions, Madam Akua Amponsah Owusu, who was one of the facilitators stressed on the need for participants to take their roles as COVID-19 Ambassadors seriously since it has a direct result of preventing a possible outbreak of COVID-19 in the region.

Participants commended the organisers for designing such an all-inclusive programme and promised to be worthy ambassadors as COVID-19 has now become a global pandemic.

Story by Kantinka De beat fm.