Akuse Prisons administers Vitamin C to boost inmates’ immune system

Authorities of Akuse Local Prisons have initiated a medical intervention to boost the immune system of inmates at the Prisons.

Prison officers administer a daily single dose of vitamin C tablet to each prisoner as a food supplement. The Prison authorities believe this would help boost the immune system of the prisoners to protect them from coronavirus infection aside other strict preventive measures rolled out at the facility.

Akuse Prisons currently has a total of 221 inmates made up of 174 convicts and 47 remand prisoners. Out of the Number, six are females.

Deputy Director of Prisons Godwin M. K.Hoenyedzi, Akuse Local Prison Commander told Starr News the intervention is part of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus to the prisons.

“We have put hand sanitizer at every office for every officer. The inmates, every day we give them one tablet of vitamin C to boost their immune system”.



The prison Commander continued that “we have a vegetable farm where we use to harvest and subsidize their feeding. It is the Prayer of me that at the end of this Covid-19, Akuse Prisons will come out strongly. If you look at the top there we have trees over there we will cut them. We are going to grow fruits over there so that if we add the vegetables and the fruits it will nourish them. We are also dreaming of coming out with a poultry project where every day or every week at least each prisoner will take one egg.

He said this when the Ghana Chapter of Tabital Pulaaku International, an association of Fulani community donated food and other items to the Akuse Prisons in the Eastern Region.

The items donated were ten buckets of Veronica buckets, twelve pieces of alcohol-based hand sanitizer, twelve gallons of liquid soaps, six pieces of tissue papers and 150 pieces of nose masks.

The rest of the items were a box of sachet milo mix, two boxes of cowbell coffee, two boxes of chocolate, a box of cowbell powdered milk, 25kg bag of Sugar, two bags of rice, 2 cups of Dates, and 2 Gallons of oil

The General Secretary of Tabital Pulaaku International Ghana, Yakubu Musah Barry said the donation was part of the association’s Corporate Social responsibility to support the vulnerable in society.

He believes the items would help enrich meals serve the inmates particularly the Muslim brothers currently fasting in incarceration.

Source: Starrfm.com.gh