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Prevention of tooth decay
See your dentist
Don’t be a stranger at the dental office if you
want to avoid cavities. Getting routine cleanings
at least once every six months can help prevent
decay early on, before it progresses to become
cavities, and if needed, your dentist can apply
fluoride to any trouble spots to prevent tooth
decay and cavities.
Brush with fluoride
Select toothpaste with fluoride as an ingredient
as this is known to protect teeth from tooth
decay and cavities. If you are concerned about
the enamel of your teeth, brush more than the
recommended twice daily and start brushing
after every meal to remove sugar and starches
that turn into corrosive acid and add an extra
layer of protection from tooth decay and cavities
Ṙinse with fluoride
You can also find rinses such as Listerine
total care anti cavity mouthwash and Listerine
smart rinse anti cavity mouthwash that contain
tooth-protecting fluoride to keep your teeth
strong and fight off cavities.
Limit snacking
Try to snack only a limited number of times
a day, and when you do, aim to include foods
that fortify and are good for the teeth. Whenever
you eat food or drink liquid other than
water, this allows bacteria to create acid that
wears away tooth enamel.
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DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018
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Vodafone pays bills for 300 women
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
ON THE anniversary
of Ghana’s 61st Interdependence
Day
celebrations, Vodafone
Ghana through
its initiative dubbed
‘Homeoming’ has granted freedom to
hundreds of financially-challenged
women who have delivered but could
not pay for their expenses in various
hospitals across the country.
The initiative is the company’s Cooperate
Social Responsibility (CSR) in ensuring
that the women join the rest of
Ghanaians to mark the 61st independence
anniversary at home.
In all, over 300 patients across the
country were giving the freedom to go
home after Vodafone through its CSR
paid all their hospital bills.
Speaking to the media at Korle-Bu
last Monday March 5, 2018, in Accra,
the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone
Ghana, Ms Yolanda Cuba said the
company through its CSR initiative embarked
on such gesture to ensure that
the women cerebrate independence with
•Ms Yolanda Cuba playing
with the twins at the Korle-Bu
Maternity Ward
their love ones.
Ms Cuba said the ‘Homecoming’ initiative
have help release over thousands
of patients across the country who were
financial constraints in paying out their
hospital bills across the country in some
time past.
“For us making sure that each and
everyone cerebrate Independence Day
was our ultimate goal because there is
no true independence unless one cerebrate
it with their love ones.
“Right now we are at the Korle-Bu
maternity ward helping taking kids that
are born a few months ago and their
mothers’ home and for us today, this is
the moment when we say you can go
home and be welcome by their parents.
We are actually taking out about 50 patients
from Korle-Bu and other 250
across various hospitals nationwide,” Ms
Cuba stated.
She added that there are no criteria
for selection of patients adding that
“what we do is, when we go to the hospitals
we talk to management about the
areas they want us to help and then we
offer our support.”
Zoomlion, AMA and Sanitation Ministry clean Accra
Unity FM holds health
walk in Kwahu
HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT DESK
UNITY FM, a private
radio station at Kwahu Atibie
in the Eastern Region,
has held its maiden health
walk to celebrate its one
year anniversary.
Attended by hundreds
of teeming listeners of the
station including health
professionals and police
officers in the locality, the
participants took advantage
of the mountainous
area to do other exercises.
Addressing the participants
of the walk, the
Chief Executive Officer of
Unity FM, Mallam Mohammed,
urged all to prioritise
exercise.
He noted that many
people have, in recent
times, been losing their
lives at a very young age or
are suffering from sicknesses
which are preventable
through exercise.
He said though heavy
schedule of work is preventing
many people from
exercising regularly, it is
important that they find
time to always exercise.
The Chief Executive
Officer urged all to make
exercise their daily habit,
as well as adopt good eating
habit.
“The food we eat plays
important role in our daily
lives and it is imperative
for us to eat nutritious
foods and avoid eating
late. Fruits should also be
added to our food menu,”
he advised.
He said, Unity FM
would continue to introduce
health programmes
that would educate its
teeming listeners on
healthy living.
•AMA and Zoomlion clean gutters
IN A bid to achieve the government’s
clean Accra project, Zoomlion over the
weekend partnered city authorities,
Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)
and the Ministry of Sanitation And
Water Resources to embark on a cleanup
exercise within the city.
About 800 workers of Zoomlion
took their cleaning equipment to areas
such as Obetsebi Lamptey Circle, parts
of the Accra-Tema Motorway, Nima
and Asylum Down to dredge choked
drains, cut down overgrown weeds and
sweep the streets.
Speaking to journalists during the exercise,
the Mayor of Accra, Mr Mohammed
Adjei Sowah, hinted that his
outfit would this time round enforce
sanitation bye-laws with no human face
or favouritism.
“We will deal with anyone who just
litters anywhere anyhow”, he said.
He noted that a lot of these sanitation
challenges are created by human behaviours
hence the firm decision of the
AMA to go after sanitation offenders.
Sanitation Minister, Kofi Adda —
who was with an entourage of government
officials called for an attitudinal
change to sanitation. He urged the public
to stop putting up illegal structures
that worsen the sanitation situation in
Accra.
“Those who
are in the wrong
places – who are
there illegally –
should move out
of those places…
you members of
the press should
do your part in
supporting us.
You have to
come here periodically
to and see what is going on.
“If you catch anybody to littering or
defecating or urinating openly you have
to bring that person to book. Take a picture
of them and put in the print media
or on TV…then we know who it is”
Kofi Adda told the press during the
tour.
Kofi Adda said Nana Akufo-Addo’s
promise to make the capital city the
cleanest in Africa is on course, saying a
plan has already been mapped out for
implementation.
On his part, Chief Executive Officer
of Zoomlion, Dr Siaw Agyepong, said
the most efficient scheme to deal with
the cancer of filth and to overcome the
chaos that it comes with is to ensure that
every house gets a dustbin.
He believes that the treatment of
waste has a pattern which should not be
broken adding that once waste is generated,
it must be contained in a liter bins
awaiting transportation to the disposal
or treatment site. Zoomlion has pledged
to support the filth fight with a nationwide
distribution of about two million
dustbins.
•Mallam Mohammed, Chief Executive Officer of Unity FM