JOURNALISTS have been called upon to support the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to disseminate its health education to the citizenry to ensure a healthy population for national development. "The citizenry relies on the media for information and we believe that with you in mind as partners, the message of health education can reach our rural communities on the need to lead healthy lifestyles," the new Director-General of the GHS, Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, said.
He made the call on Friday in Accra in an engagement with senior media practitioners to solicit their support to meet the aspiration of his administration as the D-G of the GHS.
Professor Akoriyea said the power of the media could not be overemphasized, saying the recent cholera and meningitis outbreak were one classic example in which the media reportage could paint a gloomy picture of the situation or carry a message that would go a long way to ameliorate it.
He said the doors to the GHS were opened to the media for any information that it sought to put out there to promote the health of Ghanaians.
