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Some Members of Parliament (MPs), mostly from the Volta Regional Caucus, have contributed to purchasing medical equipment, worth GH¢65,780 to enhance service delivery at the Ho Central Prisons’ health centre.
The initiative was at the insistence of Mrs Angela Alorwu-Tay, MP for Afadzato South, to coincide with her 50th Anniversary, which fell on April 16.
She said the initiative was the social responsibility of the MPs to the inmates and prison officers.
Mrs Alorwu-Tay stated that plans were afoot to upgrade the health centre and as a friend of the Prison, solicit for drugs from pharmaceutical companies for the centre.
She pledged to secure used clothing for inmates and donateD 100 bags of cement for improvement of works at the Prison.
Patrick Darko Missah, Director-General of Prisons
The Director-General of Prisons (DGP), Mr Patrick Darko Missah has charged personnel of the Prisons Service to act professionally in the discharge of their duties in the December 7 general elections.
The DGP was speaking at a durbar with a cross-section of Prison officers drawn from Accra and Nsawam at Cantonments in Accra.
Mr Darko Amissah commended the personnel for their impressive performance in previous elections and urged them to continue in the same spirit come December 2020.
The Director-General acknowledged the efforts of officers in helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic and cautioned them not to let their guard down in order to prevent a second wave as has been witnessed in other countries.