He said the health of people living within the illegal mining communities such as the one in which the university s located is a major concern to the government, pointing out that the mercury that is freely used to process gold is poisonous to humans and get into the food chain when accumulated in the fish.
There is also the problem of deforestation, which is taking place at a rate that posses the danger of desertification.
There are also child delinquencies, which comes with long term negative effect on human capacity development.
Vice president Amissah Arthur expressed an urgent need to halt the devastation of the environment and reverse the destructive trend.
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