Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo, the former Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Paty has criticized government over �the lack of public education� on the deadly Ebola disease.
His concern coincided on a day that the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) announced that it had indefinitely suspended its re-opening date over what it describes as �Ebola scare in the West African Region.�
The suspension of the re-opening date, according to a release issued yesterday, was �to enable the University to prepare adequately for reopening in view of the University Teachers� Association of Ghana (UTAG) Industrial Action and the Ebola Scare in the West Africa Region�.
Over 900 people have, so far, died from the disease in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and most recently Nigeria.
Ghana has yet to officially record a case of the disease, but fears have grown in recent times, with sporadic reports of patients hospitalized with symptoms similar to those of Ebola.
Nana Akufo Addo, in a statement released yesterday, criticized what he believes to be the lack of a �comprehensive nationwide programme to give the people of Ghana proper information on Ebola.�
According to him, the government should do more to increase public education about the disease, stating that the �lack of public education fuels panic and the consequences of public ignorance could be disastrous.�
�It is better to spend wisely now to educate the public than to spend more later to deal with the predictable, potential consequences of being hit by the pandemic because we did not prepare well enough against it�, he stated.
He therefore called on the citizenry to join him �in urging Government to do a lot more to increase public education about Ebola. It is imperative in preventing and containing this unprecedented outbreak. Prevention awareness education is the best cure�.
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