The Ghana
Health Service has revealed that Accra has since recorded 9,000 cholera cases
out of 10,000 cases recorded nationwide.
The Public
relations Officer for the Ministry of Health, Tony Goodman who disclosed this
on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Thursday, said the problem has to do with
individuals who are not willing to take up responsibilities for them.
He said they
are currently embarking on a sensitization exercise to identify cholera prone
areas to nib the problem in the bud.
Mr. Goodman
stressed that they have started a campaign by allowing most public health
workers to move to different regions to sensitize residents in the various
communities especially in the three Northern regions which is free from the
outbreak.
“On our part
as the Ministry of Health, we are doing as much as possible to reduce the
outbreak. We also call on all stakeholders to come on board so as to reduce the
sickness which has taken over Accra.”
Mr. Goodman
urged Ghanaians to keep their environment clean as well changing the sources of
drinking water in their communities.
He asked
residents from cholera areas to desist from drinking unsafe water and also
buying food from road side adding that avoiding all these acts will save more
lives in the country.
source: From: Ghana/Adomonline.com/Dorcas Abedu-
Kennedy
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