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Implement free medical care for domestic violent victims — FIDA


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BY: Juliet Akyaa Safo
Category: General News
Madam Afua Adotey, President, International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Ghana addressing participants at the forum. Picture: EDNA SALVO-KOTEY
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The President of the Federation of Women Lawyers Ghana (FIDA), Mrs. Afua Adotey, has called on the government to rigorously implement the Domestic Violence Act, ACT 723.
She said the Domestic Violence Act, ACT 723, Section 8, indicated that medical care for domestic violent victims should be free, and that it was illegal for health institutions to take money from such victims.
“After 14 years of the passage of the Domestic Violence Act, people are still paying money at medical centres when the law expressly says that it should be free; once money is paid at these medical centres, it clearly shows that it is illegal and we should hold the Ministry of Health accountable. ....

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