Intake of Osu Children's Home Increases

Admission to the Osu Children' Home has increased to 121, from 70 children last year.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Tuesday, Mrs Millicent Nyarko, Assistant Supervisor of the Home said the number shot up because the home now admits abused children in addition to the abandoned children it usually caters for.

The Home also takes in children whose mothers are serving prisons sentences as well as those of mentally ill mothers.

She said babies brought to the home are screened for HIV/AIDS and other diseases. It presently has two babies and a toddler who have tested HIV positive.

"Such babies are separated from the others because of their weak immune system."

The Home run by the Department of Social Welfare benefits from subvention from the department and donations from individuals and organisations.