Beware of cholera outbreak – GHS warns

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is urging the general public to be high alert on Cholera outbreak following two confirmed cases at the Ketu South Municipality this week.

The two confirmed cases, according to the GHS, were Ghanaian traders resident in Kumasi.

They have since been treated and discharged.

In a statement issued on Friday, October 26, 2018, and signed by the Ashanti Regional Director of Health Service, Dr. Emmanuel K. Tinkorang, it said five other traders who were the duo were followed up and “one of them developed symptoms and was treated in a private hospital in Kumasi on Tuesday, October 23, 2018.

It said contacts are being monitored after educating client and family members on good hygiene practices.

” You are requested to be on high alert, have higher suspicion index for Cholera and make extra efforts to identify the etiologic agent responsible for diarrhoea and vomiting that meet the case definition for Cholera through laboratory investigations”, the statement in part read.