Diseases Spread in Crowded Prisons

Infectious diseases such as yellow fever, diarrhoea, typhoid fever, pneumonia and cerebrospinal meningitis are spreading among inmates of Ghana's Sekondi Central and Ekuasi prisons as a result of overcrowding, 'Accra Mail' reported on Tuesday.

Infectious diseases such as yellow fever, diarrhoea, typhoid fever, pneumonia and cerebrospinal meningitis are spreading among inmates of Ghana's Sekondi Central and Ekuasi prisons as a result of overcrowding, 'Accra Mail' reported on Tuesday. The newspaper reported the assistant director of the Sekondi Central Prisons, Joseph Kwaw-Johnson, as saying this while receiving drugs worth four million cedis (US $551.724) the Pharmacy Council of Ghana donated to prisoners. Kwaw-Johnson appealed to NGOs, churches and other voluntary organisations to come to the aid of the prisoners.