Prof. Dr. Paul Osei Sampene, a pathologist and researcher at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has said galamsey is causing many children deformity.
Prof. Dr. Paul Osei Sampene in an interview with Channel One TV’s Point of View he explained, “We are looking at water, we are looking at the air we breathe and the food that we eat. So, all these three means by which the pollutants find themselves can either, thus by eating or inhale by breathing it or sometimes by drinking it from our water bodies”
He detailed that these galamsey water could accumulate in the body and affect the mother’s ovaries or the father’s semen, possibly affecting the development of a fetus.
“A mother or probably a father has this bioaccumulation of these heavy metals, it can affect the semen and sometimes the ovaries, if the mother for some reasons inhale or eat contaminated food or water or inhale some of these things, it will then find their way into the placenta which will eventually go into the baby and form many deformities.” He added.
