Following the declaration of a public health emergency of the monkey pox disease in Africa by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Ghana Health Service is gearing up to activate its surveillance system across the country. The surveillance system will enable the GHS to detect early cases and provide treatment to avoid outbreaks, according to the Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Franklin Asiedu Bekoe. Furthermore, Dr Bekoe stated that the GHS will work to raise awareness about the monkey pox disease so individuals will seek emergency treatments if they suspect they have been affected. "We are going to activate our surveillance system. We are actually going to make it in such a way that there is high awareness among Ghanaians so they do not assume every rash on their body is chicken-pox.