Three die in cholera outbreak at Agona Nyakrom

Agona Swedru, July 17, GNA - Three people have been reported dead from cholera at Agona Nyakrom in the Agona West Municipality of the Central Region following the outbreak of the disease last week.

Mr Andy Afari, Deputy Agona West Municipal Environmental Health and Sanitation Officer, made this known to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Agona Swedru on Saturday.

He said a number of people had also been treated and discharged at the Nyakrom health facility and Agona Swedru Government Hospital.

Mr Afari said a team of health personnel had been moved to spray and disinfect all public toilets and choked gutters at Nyakrom to bring the situation under control.

He said similar exercises had been extended to Agona Abodom, Lower and Upper Bobikuma and Kwamang and other nearby towns to prevent the spread of the epidemic in the municipality, adding that the department had intensified public education about the outbreak of the disease.

Mr Afari cautioned the public against indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the municipality, adding that Environmental Health and Sanitation Officers would also embark on a vigorous exercise to arrest and prosecute offenders.

Meanwhile, Mr Emmanuel Kweku Tetteh, Agona West Chief Executive, has hinted that the Assembly and the Environmental Health and Sanitation Department would assist Zoomlion Company to reduce their work load.

He said the assembly had assisted the Department to build new refuse containers and helped to repair broken down tractors to facilitate the management of sanitation in the Municipality.

Mr Tetteh expressed the hope that the Environmental Health and Sanitation Department would manage solid and liquid waste properly than the current situation.

The MCE said the assembly was repairing the broken down bulldozer at the dumping site to ensure effective and efficient management of waste in the Municipality.