Buruli ulcer detected at Bono-Manso

Bono-Manso (B/A) May 15,GNA - About five buruli ulcer cases have been detected at Bono-Manso in Nkoranza district of Brong-Ahafo. Nana Menka Ameyaw, chief of the area told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at his palace at the weekend the people in the community were faced with lack of potable water as two streams, namely Subin and Yaayaa, were their sources of drinking water.

The chief said he suspected the outbreak of the disease emanated from the use of the stream water.

He expressed regret about how the people had made several unsuccessful attempts to construct boreholes but said the community had applied to the Nkoranza District Assembly to arrange for Small Town Water System that would cost them about 300 million cedis.

Nana Ameyaw complained that the cost was so high and appealed to the government and NGOs to come to their aid. The chief however, said the people were paying special contributions of 60,000 cedis per resident citizen and 100,000 cedis per non-residents towards the project.

Nana Asante Nyarko, a sub-chief, expressed concern about the water problem facing the community, which he said had given rise to cases of typhoid fever among the people.

He said the town, which is now a tourist centre, needed certain facilities of which water was a priority and called on the government to consider their plight.

Bono-Manso in Nkoranza district was a slave trade market centre during the obnoxious slave trade and has been attracting numerous visitors. Meanwhile the buruli ulcer victims are receiving medical attention at the Holy Family Hospital at Techiman.