Cognitive impairment, fertility, reproductive problems and maternal mortality among theeffects of illegal gambling - Epidemiologist.
It is common to see children bathing in Pra river early in the morning
Professor Paul Opoku Sampene Ossei, an epidemiologist, has raised concerns about the adverse effects of illegal mining on unborn babies and pregnant women in mining areas across the country. the country.
According to him, the exposure of pregnant women to harmful toxins in the air, in water and by consuming food grown on contaminated land has resultedin an increase in stillbirths,stillbirths and deaths. death. The pathologist who conducted the case study in the affected areas said that lack of consciousness is the least of the concerns compared to some mothers who carry a stillborn child to term.
"These children are not only born with disabilities, but some of them are born in what we call stillbirth, where they die in their mother's womb or in their mother's age. And then some of them will go through what we call spontaneous abortion.
"Then, if they are lucky and come into this world, some of them will have different kindsof disabilities like the one I showed...children with different parts, legs something like Quadrilaterals, some of whichhave visible eyes. Located in a funny place around the forehead. "Some of them will have what we call polydactyl,which means their hands will have - actually, when we're talking about fingers, a finger can have six here, six therethere, six more in the legs, which makes it 12. : 12 which makes it digital 24. Then some of them are born, not born, let me say, born without parts body," he said. He said that the corruption of fetuses also results in the birth of many babies who grow up in the affected areas.
He explained that the cognitive impairment of the fetusesmeans that some of them do not connect with their mother's working hours, so they are born without certain organs or, in some cases, they are born with in that part. "Some of these things, what happens is these children because of their development, they can't coordinate the mother's work schedule, so they will have different schedules because of their cognitive impairment. ,they don't interact with their mother's reproductive system,so we can't reproduce them ourselves what we call involuntary reproduction.
“So many of the mothers, manyof them are from the rural areaswhere this galamsey work is done. As a result, by the time they were brought to the hospital, they had died. So basically when they die like that, their mother is dead, it's up to the hospital and the family to see that the babies are recovered from their mother's womb.
He said that if the government does not stop solving this problem, these problems will be common in these areas soon.
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