3 million Ghanaians living with hepatitis B - GHS

The figure falls far short of the World Health Organisation (WHO) target of diagnosing 90 per cent of people living with chronic viral hepatitis and placing 80 per cent of patients on treatment by 2030.

Currently, less than one per cent of people diagnosed with hepatitis B in Ghana are receiving treatment, a situation health authorities say is fuelling preventable deaths and exposing many infected persons to severe liver complications.

Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea is the Director-General of Ghana Health Service Only one per cent of the estimated three million people living with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana have been diagnosed.