A group of health advocates have called for integration of anti-trafficking training into the curricula of various health training institutions in the country.

That would equip and well empower health professionals to easily identify signs of trafficking, provide trauma-informed care, ethical treatment of victims, and report suspected cases as well.

The group made up of nine members, and level 400 students of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Catholic University of Ghana (CUG), made the call at a seminar oganised by the Department held at the University's main campus at Faipre, near Sunyani.

Led by the Reverend Sister Pia Panpogee, the Diocesan Coordinator for Missionary Childhood Association, Sisters of Mary Immaculate, Wa Diocese, the group are working on a project titled "human trafficking: a global health concern", for their academic qualifications.

Other members include Beloved Adekoya, Alabi Oluwaseun Pamilerin, Pearl Ekwuruibe, Victor Oluwafolakunmi Kola-Ajobiewe, Lovelyn Maduka Kosisochuku, Evidence Ofotan, Perpetua Oloba Omolola and Grace Pufaa.

Rev Sr Panpogee, also a Nurse at the St Theresa Hospital, Nandom, Upper West Region expressed worry that the country lacked realistic data or statistics on human trafficking due to the sensitive nature of the menace.

Rev Sr Oloba of the Sisters of St Louis, Nigeria, and a tutor at the St Louis College of Nursing Sciences, Kafanchan, Kadnua State, and one of the students, expressed worry that ancient slave trade had not only resurfaced, but well modernized.
Sompaonline.com/K. Peprah