Cases of communicable diseases rise in Essikado Hospital

Doctor Nana Brobbey, Medical Superintendent at the Essikado Hospital has said communicable diseases continue to feature prominently out of the top ten diseases recorded at the hospital’s Out Patient Attendance.

He said malaria, tract infection, skin diseases, pregnancy related diseases were hitherto the illness that came in daily but now “we record and attend to tuberculosis, diabetes and other communicable diseases”.

Dr Brobbey said this to the GNA during a health screening exercise organized by Vodafone Ghana in the Essikado community in Sekondi.

He said lifestyle and food choices were mainly a contributory factor to such diseases, adding that, there is the need for regular and early checkup.

Dr Brobbey said such health promotion programmes was therefore helpful to enable many living in communities to know their health status.