Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandor is in Wa in the Upper West Region with a team of experts to obtain firsthand information and assess the meningitis outbreak in the area.

The Minister is expected to appear before Parliament next week to give an update on the disease outbreak in the country.

Currently, 10 out of the 42 confirmed cases have so far died from the disease in the Upper West Region.

Health officials have been on high alert for any possible outbreak of the disease in the country as the outbreak intensifies.