The Ladies Association of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Tema Region, held a pre-Father’s Day discussion as part of a staff durbar to mark the celebration on Sunday, June 15, 2025.
The association, officially known as the ECG Power Queens of Tema Region, held the durbar on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the company’s Tema Regional Office to discuss several issues concerning staff and the organization.
Addressing the durbar, the ECG Power Queens National Organizer, Ms. Emma Aba Amissah, in an address on behalf of the Tema Power Queens President, Ms. Anabel Zormelo, spoke on the theme “The Self-Preserving Man.” As part of her address, Ms. Amissah said, “Our message to you is that you should focus on your health and get yourself checked for prostate and testicular cancers, as these conditions are affecting more and more men.” She added that “science and medicine show that early detection can improve chances of recovery; therefore, the plea is for men to take their health seriously in the wake of upcoming Father’s Day as a gift to themselves.”
Another speaker was the ECG Tema Management representative for mental health, Madam Zita Kyei-Gyamfi, who focused her address on stress and suicide prevention. She said, “Culturally and socially, men have been brought up to keep their issues to themselves, yet this is not a healthy practice, as there are many issues stressing men, and the silence is not helping.”
She added that “men should open up, build and form good relationships, and stop internalizing their problems.”
Madam Kyei-Gyamfi added a plea that “suicide has reached alarming rates, with more men becoming victims. This is a mental health scare, and therefore, men should speak up and stop keeping all stress to themselves.”
The Tema Queens encouraged all staff in the Region to wear blue on the day as part of the advocacy on men’s health and to mark the pre-Father’s Day celebration.
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