Most Street Child Beggars Are Living With HIV, Tuberclosis or COVID 19 – Study Reveals

According to a revelation by a task force led by the Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Samuel Pyne, together with the Social Welfare department, most street child beggars are living with HIV, Tuberculosis, and COVID-19.

However, the KMA Mayor, Sam Pyne, revealed in an interview with Kumasi-based Abusua FM, saying:

It was during the screening process that it was discovered that ten out of fifteen child beggars tested positive for HIV, Tuberculosis, and COVID-19.

“We needed to deal with them by taking them to a private home but do you think they will be glad to take such children having these conditions? They do not have any isolation or holding centers to deal with these cases.

“If you care to know, we don’t even have a shelter in Kumasi now. What we used to have in the Kumasi Children’s Home, has been taken over by Asokore Mampong because of the demarcation in the creation of that municipality.”

Source: Gossips24.com