Heavily polluted water owing to illegal mining (galamsey) activities, is making water treatment too expensive for pharmaceutical companies to treat water for the manufacturing of drugs and medicine, the newspaper Modern Ghana writes. Dr. Samuel Kow, president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH), who made this known, said water pollution was one of the gravest threats confronting public health:
«Ghana currently enjoyed self-sufficiency in the local production of infusions, but illegal mining threatens this achievement.»
