GHANA BURNS FOUNDATION COMMENDS GOV'T.

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The founder of the Ghana Burns Survivors Foundation, Dennis Opoku Gyamfi has commended President John Dramani Mahama for accepting the challenge of the fire incident that occurred in Accra on the 3rd of this month. 

Mr. Opoku Gyamfi also commended the government for resolving to take up the hospital bills of the victims. 

Mr. Opoku Gyamfi made the commendation in an interview with GBC’s  Ashanti regional FM, Garden City Radio in Kumasi. 

He explained that burns is a very devastating form of injury which affects the individual physically, emotionally as well as psychologically. 

Another worrying aspect of the situation, according to him, is when promises made to by concerned people to take up their medical bills become empty promises.

 Mr. Opoku Gyamfi noted that most burns victims are shunned by the society thereby leaving them to their own fate. 

According to him, some of the victims also lose their jobs, spouses and relations. 

 In such times the victims become lonely during which periods some of them ponder over committing suicide as the best way out of their troubles. 

He used the opportunity to encourage surviving victims of the Accra fire disaster that there is hope for them and urged them to join the Burns Foundation.
                                     
                                      
The founder of the foundation appealed to the government to help establish a rehabilitation center and provide them with the necessary resources such as mobile vans to facilitate their activities. 

This he believes will help them to regain their self-confidence and self-worth to live normal lives.

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