The Ghana Health Service is advocating a return to the sanitary systems that were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic to help contain the spread of the prevailing cholera outbreak in the country.The Director General of the Service, Dr.
Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, speaking to members of the press on October 30, noted that the severity of cases being seen in the Ada East District, the most hit, is beginning to slow down.Since the declaration of the cholera outbreak in the Ada East and West districts of the Greater Accra Region, more than fifty cases have been confirmed with 2 deaths so far.Over the week, the District Security Coordinating Councils of the two districts have had series of meetings in the bid to review interventions being implemented.According to the Ghana Health Service, it has gotten to a threshold where it doesn't test every case but treats them as and when they come, as well as intensifying efforts to contain the spread by tackling the insanitary situation that stimulates the disease.Dr Kuma-Aboagye called for intensified education among the populace."We have outbreaks of cholera in almost the entire West African bloc.
So as people move in and come back, the fishermen go and come back.
It's more like the importation of cases but if we tackle the WASH systems it will tackle it.