The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is intensifying vaccination and sensitisation as a cholera outbreak claims 40 lives and infects over 6,000 people nationwide.
The outbreak, which began in Ada East, Greater Accra in October 2024, has since spread to coastal areas and parts of the Eastern and Ashanti regions.
Head of Prevention and Control at the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, told JoyNews that many of the victims died before reaching medical facilities. "Many of the victims died before they could get to the hospital.
They were waiting, thinking the diarrhoea would stop on its own," he explained.
