Nkoranza records 29 TB cases

The Nkoranza Municipal Health Directorate in the Brong Ahafo region recorded 29 Tuberculosis (TB) cases in the first half of 2015.

Francis Yaw Adjei, the Institutional TB Coordinator at the Nkoranza Saint Theresa’s Catholic Hospital, revealed this to Starrfmonline.com.

Adjei mentioned Abuontam, Akumsa-Domase, Bonsu, Ahyiayem, Nkwabeng and Nkoranza Township as areas where the cases were recorded.

He noted the Health Directorate has organised a workshop for 40 TB Control Programme Coordinators and TB affected persons in the Municipality at Nkoranza to help manage the issue.

The objective was to educate and encourage the patients on the need to seek for proper medical attention from hospitals to ensure effective management and cure of the disease for healthy living.

Adjei said 20 of the affected patients were males and nine were females, saying the Hospital had been visiting them to monitor the progress of their health, while counseling and encouraging them to lead healthy lives.

He commended Madam Georgina Saah, a ward Assistant at the Bonsu Health Centre, for her hard work, particularly, for her regular visit of TB affected persons in the community and the timely report on their conditions to the Hospital.

Winifred Tienaah, the Municipal Director of Health, said gone were the days when TB was described as ‘ghost cough’ and ‘deadly’ disease, and advised the affected persons not to panic about their situation because there were prescribed medicines to cure the disease.

Madam Tienaah emphasized the need for the affected persons to rigorously follow the dosage of the medicines dispensed to them so as to complete the course.

She appealed to stakeholders like traditional rulers, Assembly-members, religious leaders, Unit Committees and Civil Society Organizations in the communities to join the campaign on TB Control by encouraging victims to attend the hospitals for medical care.