interactive content teaching the next generation of the fundamental protection. using channels available to inspire people to take action and we're determined to build something here for the next generation the ideas the environment series of global 3000 on d.w. and online. this is the news africa coming up on the program to live or to die that is the question sounds like an easy decision to make but what if there is the lack of doctors or health facilities to kill you ghana's health minister eyes here to talk about a situation in his country to be increased the number of me twice and increase in number of misses even doctors ratio to peace i mean policing is significantly increasing the moment. also coming up he draws much the vision from his mask from his surroundings from his own 1st drafts as

a baby we hear from the young artist who's developed his phone technique and it's a selling. your welcome to the program we start with god a country where access to health care remains a challenge for many especially in rural areas the lack of doctors and nurses a lack of medical facilities a lack of funding for the national health insurance there's just not enough money for it $1.00 outcome from all of this mothers die in childbirth at double the country's staggered rate every stop puts it up 145th globally that's according to the world health organization's most recent figures and for every 1000 babies born in ghana nearly 50 will die by the age of 5 let's talk to someone whose business is to handle such issues in the country up. in about gunnison list of help mistah of i

mean he's here in berlin for the world health summit welcome and thank you for your time so thank you and so what is your government doing to prevent mothers and babies from dying due to lack of proper health care commented a lot but it last 3 years we've seen tremendous improvement in the little things that we do and we are getting better indicators now things have improved quite a lot but one child kid you found mortality for example. about 56 years but we will see inclusive and around 11. pay every $1000.00 now we're doing around $46.00 which is close to the future that you are mentioning about now i have told the country significantly over the last 3 is what i've come to realize is that our traditional hospitals were not designed to kill children especially in later

units now we have made a policy that is pushing for cities to be creating these specialized units for infants especially new needs to be taking care of so things are improving we have increased the number of midway's an interesting number of mesa's even doctors to p.c. i mean publishing is significantly increasing at the moment and interest which is helping this move forward to see if we can achieve what we should like chief ok this still remains a lot to be done that's for sure and now i got as nationality assurance going is highly indebted and underfunded why does it seem so difficult to explore opportunities to sustain the program because it is headed now i think of think we have improved again in that area we came to heritage 12 months of it really is that it is speak we have just of all forms of indebtedness louis to form releases from plants closed by the end of the year we should have seen to have come on like with

just the money did trees start to treat but reus there are still service providers that are that are complaining that number also is right here between may absolute now we have done that a lot we have completed something but that runs of timber we've got some massive releases that we have been using to peel providers are going to have done quite a lot of harm to you how do you buy that the country will win more than 4 months in the wrists as a speaker no i'll come to you in a bit. we will now take a look at their reports which highlights some of the major health problems facing people and especially where all areas of. dr ino ugh bet is a she and his colleagues a setting off to give medical care to people on an island in the vast lake volta it's a risky venture you know what are we have a lot of stumps. supplying the both side will to hit the stumps and the cup size.

the doctor and his team will be treating fishermen and their families mortality rates among women and children here are well above the country's average childbirth and malaria other biggest killers ino comes here in his free time normally he works at a hospital on the mainland. with. the boatman familiar with the water is still is the vessel safely through the partially submerged hazards. after an hour's journey the team arrives on the island is home to nearly 20000 people you know he's their only doctor and he can only visit every few weeks there's our clinic for our new clinic. he can't always see all the patients in a single visit. patients a trio just outside the clinic 1st inside tends to the ones in greatest need many

of them pregnant women. hopefully now he's better equipped to treat them. just a few days earlier the government sent him to do a crash course on how to perform complex gynecological operations at a hospital down river in battle or. a lack of highly trained specialists in ghana means general practitioners like enough are expected to fill the gap. doing hysterectomies us that's a very white house still feel that we have to live through that before losing political backing stations. even a woman hemorrhages after giving birth hysterectomy is often the only way to save her life or have you know encountered this once in the far north east of the country but couldn't save the new mother. if muda if i knew the skills that i have now i'll go out and absolutely

a life. she died. most highly skilled medics are drawn to ghana's few big cities and more than half seek work abroad where opportunities and wages a better battle is feeling the effects of this brain drain. back on the island in like volta inox already managed to treat more than 40 patients next up is 3 year old versioning. he has a high fever and is so weak he can't walk. if one of. the rapid test for malaria is positive. that others no one it's in everything and that's a dangerous side so for now we would take that in the boats back to. we can leave that out otherwise that's how. the intravenous infusions the child urgently needs are only available on the mainland

but he'll have to wait a little longer to get them. by late afternoon you know he's treated movement 60 people for others the time ran out and then have to wait until his next visit. to the vote for weeks from now there's rain managed to get through the last few hours and is now being taken for malaria treatment at a knox hospital they leave just in time. the boatman can easily spot the stumps in the water but it's getting dark a by the minute when they reach the mainland will finally get to the hospital where he not thinks he has a good chance of recovery. that report was from the while ago i spoke this morning with dr i believe stacey who told me that challenges remain the same after you know we've got to have minister who are smart menu so there's clearly a high priest and doctor ratio what is your government doing about this we have

actually graduated to say about 300 new doctors from cuba they will go to internship and raided by the colleagues medical and dental exams to get this it is a practice but december we have added on to the numbers also since 250 now who have just been enrolled in cuba we expect that years to come to lawsuit time but don't even try to expand the room ain't in the medical schools that we have which is a very weak compared to the i forgot that is the who original has been so. and we also running medical courses to me at work it matters that we recently launched a project where drones that are medications blood as a terror to patients in areas that are hard to reach how is that going is doing quite well is doing quite well we launched the face sent. about 4 months ago and it has that last month or so the prison like this against and was able to do for us and is about 70 percent of the land mass of the country we have.

a priority here because in some areas rather health facilities are needed but you go along with this and that is obviously another debate for later time don't allow us to delve deeper mr minister of health gotta many thanks for your time thank you very much. in nigeria's biggest city lagos it can be tough for a young artist to find a nice and make a living doing something you love but for a 22 year old who's that depth with the paint brush and with illustrating his creative vision the search has been successful. the canvas i view of use if abu good day at work. actually he's working on paper in this instance not on canvas. and yes he works while wearing a good sized mask will show you what he looks like behind the mask in

a sack you saw that day starts by creating a central subject then slowly fills in or fills out his murals with intricate lines and patterns that he says tell a multitude of stories. to mask purely for inspiration but ever present in the work he calls his technique i know is a developed in a moment of tedious waiting for someone on the telephone. and say that my hands that is controlling lions in depend. on small people so i thought i had to keep drawing this particular line motions you know because it's something i've know these things before not really seen before and not really heard of before i know is i'm comes from a you reuben name for a child born with his umbilical cord around his neck. learned his very 1st difficult breaths were in such a position and he has since found motivation from that knowledge.

is deep down and just growing alliance. it's actually seen both beauty demean because whenever creating my pieces i see. is these before he works on just about any kind of surface and has become an independent artist in certain circles and law goes with works that may last only a day. to those that could and should last decades or longer. about is just beautiful that's a fun hour from d.w. news africa you can catch all ostorius on our website on facebook page we'll leave you now with more pictures of the beautiful works from the nigerian artist yousif. we'll see you next time bye for now.

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