About the Authors

Francis Amanle Cudjoe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Fields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa Mine, Tarkwa, Ghana

Douglas Aninng Opoku

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

douglasopokuaninng@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, University Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Nana Kwame Ayisi-Boateng

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Joseph Osarfo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Health Sciences, Ho, Ghana

Kofi Sekyere Boateng

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Lydon Nii Adjiri Sackey

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Edgar Andoh Cobbina

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Fields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa Mine, Tarkwa, Ghana

Isaac Kofi Yankson

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Building and Road Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

Alhassan Sulemana

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.