The great impact of our well being, for that matter our health greatly depends on our " Socio Economy and Living style." Many of us know this that currently Ghana is facing plethora of problems in terms of the decline of our our economy structure. Whether you agree as a Ghanaian or not, the reality under ground is that majority of people are suffering to make earns meet, to get the basic necessity which is food and shelter. The fact is that a nature with about 80% of the people finding it very difficult to get food and shelter then, it means that nation is in economic crisis. No one would ever think of affording a car while he or she is hungry.
Image taken my me during the admission of my daughter at Nsuta Polyclinic
One of the major problem with the economic hardship is failure to take active care of our health. Why am I saying this so? If the individual don't have the basic food to eat for the day, he'll begin to think of what to eat, what food to give to my children. I don't if the person have something to eat he'll insanely think about getting a car. But, food is the first basic need which is directly related to the body, and hence it absence would let one go crazy of thinking very deeply, especially if there's no hope or source of getting something to feed the berry.
For the few months that the hyperinflation has completely engulfed the Ghanaian economy,the Dollar rate keep increasing inevitably, and food prices rising up on daily basis, I've been collecting data certain data about how an average Ghanaian is able to manage his or home. It would surprise you that a man told me that he chewed a roasted corn the whole day. Some too are crying not able to afford 4.5kg rice which cost Gh¢ 100.0 equivalent to $9.26 which was bought at a price of Gh¢ 45 ~~ $4.17.
The fact is that if the individuals are not able to afford basic food to eat, by all means starving would lead them to think too much. The side effects of too much thinking is high blood pressure and other associations of diseases. Imagine if because of food had led to acquiring diseases, the second problem is where to get money to heal the disease.
Due to hardship economy, many people especially the average Ghanaian would turn to eat poorly without eating proper balanced diet or managing their diets. This would obviously lead to certain diseases like diabetes, hypertension and vision problems. That's why currently we keep receiving a lot of disease cases in our hospitals. If the economy status is very good, with food prices very moderate to be afford by the average Ghanaian, people would begin to eat good food.
The living style of many individuals are very bad due to the high economic crisis; the hijack of fuel prices has turned to increase the Lorry fares. The high cost of duties on imported goods are killing the marketers who import goods from Abroad. They keep complaining of not getting any marginal profit to even encourage them to keep trading so they have quit the business for now. Imported foods like rice, wheat, milo, nido and others are very costly at market now.
We should remember that what account for the strength the economy is hold its Gross domestic Products(GDP) and controlling its inflation. Being able to produce more food to feed the citizens and establishing more businesses and factories that can produce goods for sales. This is one challenge Ghana is facing now, unable to locally produce sufficiently and selling the surplus produce to foreign countries for foreign exchange earnings. If the imported goods outweighs the ones that we produce locally, they we would always suffer from the economic crisis.
One thing that I hate to hear is after the sickness had come over you some people would motivating you to stop thinking, meanwhile the the actual problem that led you to think hasn't been solved. Why don't you put adequate measures in place; like having a lot of state farms, many factories which are actively working to produce abundance foods.
Many people even do not access health facilities when they are sick due to high cost of living. We all pray that the situation could turn for better. Government needs to put in place with concrete measures to serve his people.
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