Bawku conflict: Health professionals living in fear - Adomonline.com

Nurses and Midwives in the Bawku municipality in the Upper East Region are living in fear for their lives in the wake of renewed gun battles.

The current clash in the municipality allegedly left an unspecified number of people dead, a development the Public Relations Officer of the Union of Professional Nurses and Midwives Ghana (UPNMG), Issah Awuni Sulley, said has made it difficult for health workers to go about their daily activities.

“Health professionals in the Bawku municipality are living in fear because nurses and midwives find it difficult to move on with their daily activities.

Sulley explained that the Bawku district was fast becoming a ghost town because people have fled for fear for their lives.

He explained that the clash has also affected the cost of living of the nurses in the municipality because nurses now pay more for transportation since the demand for tricycles has increased.

“Our means of transport which used to be the motorbikes have now been excluded, our only means of transport now is the Mahama Can Do (tricycles) as we call it in Bawku municipality here.

“Then it increases our cost of living as health professionals in Bawku municipality because they have increased the fares of the ‘Can Do’ because motorbikes are banned so the only means now is ‘Can Do’ so we spend a lot actually on transport,” he lamented.