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Invisible killers


Ghana’s six invisible killers — Why the poorest pedestrians pay the highest health price

BY KINGSLEY E. HOPE KEJETIA MARKET, Kumasi — Akosua Frimpong arrives at this busy central market before dawn. By 6am, she has arranged her foodstuffs on the median strip — tomatoes, onions, yams, okra, garden eggs — hawking them to pedestrians and drivers passing by. By evening, she will have stood there 14 hours, breathing…

Kingsley E. Hope
Ghanaian Times

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