there's enough to the fall of the berlin wall the night w. . 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 is here to talk about the situation in his country to be increased the number of meet ways of increasing number of misses in doctors' racial pisani populations is infinitely increasing at the moment. also coming up he draws motivation from his mask from his surroundings on from his own 1st breads as

a baby we hear from the young artist who's developed his own technique it's a selling. i am eddie mica joining out here welcome to the program we start with gotta a country where access to health care remains a challenge for many years 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 why not come from all of this mothers die in childbirth at double the country staggered rate every 5 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 i'm talking about. not gonna say list of help

mistah i mean he's here in berlin for the world health summit welcome and thank you for the time so thank you and so what is your government doing to prevent mothers and babies from dying due to lack of health care commented a lot but it last 3 years we've seen tremendous improvement and a lot of things that we do and we are getting better indicate is now. have improved quite a lot but in child kidney infant mortality for example. about 56 years but with c. inclusive of and around 11. every 1000 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 natives

units now we have made a policy that is pushing us to the chiefs to be creating these specialized units for infants special you know needs to be taking care of so things are improving we have increased the number of midway's an increasing number of misses even doctors richelieu to ph i mean publishing is significant increase and at the moment interest which is helping this move forward to see if you can achieve what you should achieve ok this still remains a lot to be done that's for sure and now i got a national insurance scheme is highly indebted and underfunded why does it seem so difficult to explore opportunities just as the in the program because it is headed now i think you think we have improved again in that area we came to heritage 12 months of it really is that it is as i speak we have just about 4 months of indebtedness louis to form releases from plants closed by a b. in of the year we should have seen to have come on light which is there might be

a tree as the 2 tree reus there are still some years of writers that are that are complaining that number also crazy here between may absolute now we have them a lot we have completed something but around september we 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 we have more than 4 months in the reus s s because i know i'll come to you in a bit we will now take a look at the reports which highlight some of the major health problems facing people going to specially rural areas of gaza. dr a no 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 boats to hit the stumps and the capsize.

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 and the biggest killers in all comes here in his free time normally he works at a hospital on the mainland. with. the boatman familiar with the waters 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 because they're only doctor and you 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 or trios to 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 are expected to fill the gap. doing hysterectomies yes that's a very right are still. that we have to live through that speech are losing political backing stations. if a woman haemorrhages after giving birth hysterectomy is often the only way to save her life or had you not encountered this once in the far north east of the country but couldn't save the new mother. if muda if i knew the school that i have now i'll go and upstate

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 know a woman is in everything and that's a dangerous side so for now we would take that in the boat back to. we in with ali that are here are our eyes that are out war wounds as well. 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 more than 60 people for of is the time ran out and i'll have to wait until his next visit. to the vote for weeks from now jane managed to get through the last few hours and is now being taken for malaria treatment at all spittle they leave just in time. the boatmen can easily spot the stumps in the water but it's getting dark a by the minute when they reach the mainland the regime will finally get to the hospital where he not thinks he has a good chance of recovery. that report was thrown the while ago i spoke this morning with dr i believe stacey who told me that challenges remain the same you know it got to have been a staff who are smart meaning so clearly high precision doctor ratio what is your government doing about this we have actually graduated about 300 new doctors from

cuba they will go to internship and raided by the tel exams medical and dental exams to get is that it's a practice by december we have added on to the numbers we also sent 250 now who have just been enrolled in cuba we expect that years to come to listen come back to you trying to expand the room and in the medical schools that we have which is a very weak compared to the i forgot that is the who original most of the hospital now and the o's who are running medical courses through. the numbers that we have recently launched are projects 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 again we're supposed to do for sent is to cover close about 70 percent of the land mass of the country we had required

some things as issue of priority here because in some areas. health facilities are needed but you're going on with this and that is obviously another debate for a later time what does allow us to delve deeper mr minister of health data many thanks for your time thank you very much. and i j.s. big yes it's a legacy 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 deft with the paintbrush and with illustrating his creative vision the search for your niece has been successful. the canvas i view of use is 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 starts by creating

a central subject then slowly fills in or fills out his mural 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. to say my story lines in different. on a small people so i say to keep drawing this particular line motions you know because it's something i know these things before not really seen before and not really heard of before i know is i'm comes from or 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 flown motivation from that knowledge.

is deep down just drain alliance on if. we've found beauty in meaning because whenever i create in my pieces i see. those in the 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. now that is just beautiful that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all austar is on our website and facebook page will leave you now with more pictures of the beautiful works from the nigerian artist yousif open day we'll see you next time bye for now.

your link time news from africa and the world join us on facebook net t w africa. with him how to be a gun it goes on as well the highest high you know if i had known that the boat would be that small i never would have gone on a trip you know i would not have put myself and my parents sometimes dangerous to the bottom of the theme of the going to give a flavor of. love and thank you they put that on the ability to give them i had

serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live their lives i'm going to. you want to know their story a great stir fried and reliable information for margaret's. welcomes the news from the world of culture prints left us too soon but he did leave a memoir that's just been published also coming out today. governor of spent time in an east german jail so she welcomed the full of the burden wall a story in our series leading up to the 30th anniversary. and germans still favor cash over credit cards for most transactions it's

a cultural phenomenon and we'll find out why. but we begin with prince because this memoir called the beautiful walk ins has just been published and is flying off the shelves at the moment. prince died of an accidental drug overdose in 2016 but had already chosen a co-author for his autobiography the young journalist and found on pipe and bring the book contains princes in complete text and never before seen photos notes and hand written written lyrics.