A writer and lifestyle coach Mr. Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah in a focus newsroom interview has emphasized the need for public education on the novel coronavirus pandemic to be circumscribed to the use of local Ghanaian dialects.
Speaking to Focus FM’s Maame Adwoa Brembah, Mr. Yeboah reiterated that every Ghanaian has a strong connection to his or her mother tongue. According to him, the majority of Ghanaians find it easy to communicate in their local dialects. He, therefore, pointed to the need for the government of Ghana to employ local dialects in its bid to educate the general public on COVID-19.
Mr. Yeboah further expressed disappointment in the measures put in place up to this point in educating the public on the coronavirus pandemic. In his opinion, public education should have started long before Ghana recorded its first two cases. He explained saying that it was easily predictable that the virus would hit Ghanaian soil after neighboring countries Togo and Nigeria recorded cases of the COVID-19.
“People in the frontline had not even been equipped with the proper education that could give them the kind of confidence to want to work. This is how come that some of the nurses and doctors got infected with COVID-19 by people who had gone to the hospital with malaria cases. “He said
According to the lifestyle coach, he has been keenly following national issues and has thus observed that the country delayed its efforts in implementing its strategies for the fight against COVID-19. He attributed the poor public education on COVID-19 to the country’s delay in its implementation of the COVID-19 combat strategies.
Scofray advised that the government of Ghana intensify public education on COVID-19 in local dialects.
“Our literacy rate in this country is different, our psychography is also different; so you always must localize international campaigns to suit the kind of people we have as a nation,” he concluded.
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Maame Adwoa Brembah/focusnewsroom.com
