Ghana: The Health Hazards of Cooking in Rural Ghana

[Southern Voice] Ghana, a woman's day starts early and ends late. She takes care of the entire household, including cooking for everyone. Children will often crowd around her while she prepares the meal. In rural areas, polluting fuels such as charcoal, firewood and crop residue are mostly burned in traditional, inefficient cook-stoves, made out of stone and mud. Women and children inhale this smoke in the kitchen and sometimes burn themselves accidentally. This is an inefficient way of cooking that can cause serious healt
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news