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Advocate for Social Intervention Ghana (ASIG), a civil society organization spearheading social justice in the country, has praised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for showing greater leadership in the fight against coronavirus.

The civil society group said President Akufo-Addo has shown and continued to show greater concern and commitment to the prevention and total eradication of Covid-19 in Ghana.

The Chief Executive Officer of ASIG, Mr. Emmanuel Arthur, commended the President in a statement issued and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi.

The statement noted that all the preventive protocols and restrictive measures imposed by the Government were geared towards containing the further spread of the virus and ensure public safety.

Though it said scientists and health researchers around the globe were working around the clock to produce vaccines to treat the disease, it was time Ghana considered the use and promotion of local medicine to fight the virus.

According to ASIG, traditional steam bath with Nim tree leaves, camphor, lemon, garlic and/or Aidan fruit, had over the years, proved to be very efficacious in the treatment of several diseases and infections.

It, therefore, entreated the government to consider encouraging people to use such traditional herbs for the treatment of the virus and other diseases.
The statement commended Ghanaians for showing kindness by distributing food and other items to the vulnerable during the lockdown in some parts of the country and also contributing to the National Covid-19 Trust Fund.

It appealed to the Government to consider completing the abandoned hospital projects dotted around the country before starting the construction of the 88 proposed new ones as was announced by the President in his eighth televised address to the nation.

The statement also called on ministries of Trade and Industries and Local Government and Rural Development to help restructure trading in the country’s markets to reduce congestion and improve social distancing.

It commended the Ghana Medical Association, Ghana Health Service, organizations, and individuals for standing firm in the fight against the spread of the virus.