The Health Ladies Association, a group comprising health workers on Thursday presented items for the upkeep and to improve hygiene of female inmates at the Sunyani Central Prisons.
The items include quantities of sanitary pads, shaving blades, toiletries, washing, bathing and medicated soaps, pomade, brushes, pastes and washing powder.
According to the Reverend Esther Prempeh, the President, the Association was formed to support needy and vulnerable people in society.
“We are happy when we share with the needy, orphans and the vulnerable people,” she said.
Superintendent Charity Yeboah, in-charge of Industry at the female Prison, thanked the Association for the gesture and appealed for more of such support.
“It’s been a long time since the inmates received shaving sticks from the public” she stated and appealed to the public to also support the reformation of the 19 female inmates at the central prison.
Supt Yeboah said the reformation and reintegration of the inmates remained shared and collective responsibility, saying more of such assistance was expected from the public in providing the essential needs of the inmates.
GNA
