The ladies association of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Tema Region, has organised a pre-Father’s Day discussion as part of a staff durbar to mark the celebration on Sunday, June 15, 2025.
The association, officially known as the ECG Power Queens of Tema Region held the durbar on Thursday June 12 at the Tema Regional Office, to discuss a number of issues of concern to the staff and the organisation.
Speaking at the durbar, National Organiser for Power Queens, Emma Aba Amissah who delivered an address on behalf of the Tema Power Queens President, Anabel Zormelo, said “our message to you is that you should focus on your health and get yourself checked for prostate and testicular cancers.”
These conditions she noted, “are affecting more and more men” even though “science and medicine have shown that early detection can improve chances of recovery.”
She, herefore pleaded for the men to “take their health seriously in the wake of upcoming father’s day as their gifts to themselves.”
In another address on behalf of the ECG Management in Tema Region, the representative for mental health, Zita Kyei-Gyamfi focused her address on stress and suicide prevention.
She said that “culturally and socially, men have been brought up to keep their issues to themsleves yet this is not a healthy practice, as there are many issues stressing men and the silence is not helping.”
She urged “men should open up, build and form good relationships and to stop internalising their problems.”
Madam Kyei-Gyamfi added: “suicide has gotten to alarming rates with more men becoming victims. This is a mental health scare and therefore, men should speak up and stop keeping all stress to themselves”.
