A 25-year-old Indian man has died following an electric shock, reportedly from his mobile phone while using it to make a phone call.
News Tonight reported that Dhanji Damor was making a call with his Chinese supplied phone, which was plugged in to the main electricity for charging and he experienced an electric shock.
Damor was reportedly rushed to the hospital by his family immediately after the incident but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
“He was using a phone that is locally known as a shanzai phone - a cheap Chinese clone of a branded smartphone,” a family source was quoted as saying.
The Indian government has been trying to clamp down on the imports of such handsets because they lack IMEI numbers and the government considers that a security risk.
In Ghana several of such cheap Chinese phones are on the market, and the Radiation Protection Institute (RPI) of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has raised concerns about their threat to public safety and health.
Doctor Joe Amoako of RPI has said research shows some of those phones emit higher levels of radiation than what is internationally acceptable as safe.
There had been reports of such phones destroying SIM cards and some exploding while on charge mode, and yet they keep flocking the market by the day.
Some companies have even started assembling some cheap quality “Chinese style” phone in Ghana whiles regulators look on.
The Ghana Standard Boards (GSB) has said it had adopted internationally accepted regulations and handed them over to the National Communications Authority (NCA) to regulate the influx of cheap Chinese phones for the purposes of public safety.
But the NCA insists it is the duty of the GSB to do the gate-keeping and regulate the import of cheap and potentially dangerous Chinese phones.
Story By: Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona/Adom News/Ghana
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