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The Ensign College of Public Health (ECOPH), Engage Now Africa (ENA) and Health2Go (H2Go) have joined forces together with some selected communities in Ashanti, Eastern and Volta Regions respectively to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Project under the team “Team Archimedes: Covid-19 Behavioural Change Project” aimed at partnering communities to increase awareness about COVID-19 disease based on an understanding of individual behavioral change. 

The group distributed over four thousand face masks to the vulnerable in society, public education materials alongside continued community engagement on adherence to COVID-19 prevention protocols.

Madam Cecilia Amankwah, the Country Director of Engage Now Africa (ENA), explained that the gesture by ECOPH/ENA/H2GO is to give love and care for the vulnerable saying “COVID-19 is real; it's really killing a lot of people and affecting people’s economic activities and other things, so we want you to take the virus very seriously and protect yourselves from it by observing all the precautionary measured protocols".

She added; “We will keep coming to your community to educate and sensitize you on Covid-19 protocols in order to stay alive.”

Dr. Edward Kofi Sutherland, the Medical Director and Faculty at the Ensign College of Public Health (ECOPH), also said even though the COVID-19 has thrown the whole world out of gear, he believed the disease will be succumbed should every person adhere to the health protocols of washing hands under running water regularly, using alcohol-based hand sanitizers, wearing nose masks and practicing social distancing among others. 

"To be able to fight against the disease, it has to start from you and me. We all have a role to play”, he stated. 

Dr. Reuben Esena, another faculty member of Ensign College of Public Health (ECOPH), in his delivery, said the novel Coronavirus has had a serious effect on the economy and social life.

"So, constant education is a key, especially in the rural areas for people to know the disease is not something to play around, rather treat it with all the seriousness it deserves."

Receiving the items, Hon. Moses Kwasi Awukuvi Danyevor, the Assemblymember of Mafi-Dove electoral area, thanked the organizers for their kind gesture and promised to join hands with them to fight against the Corona disease.