Effia Kwesimintim Municipal records 85 cases of cholera daily

Mrs. Joyce Bagina Sutherland, the Effia Kwesimintim Municipal Director of Health, says the municipality now records around 85 cases of cholera daily.

The health burden, she noted, was becoming enormous and alarming, needing emergency care and services to meet the growing need of the population.

Mrs. Sunderland, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said medical supplies and beds were now in shortage, needing urgent replacement.

She has therefore advised every home to have ORS as a first aid, ensuring that affected persons go to the toilet in a pot and dug holes rather than poly bags or dumping toilets in gutters, which allowed flies to transmit the disease condition.

The EKMA Health Director said families who brought their patients to the hospitals must also allow the health professionals to do their work by staying away anytime a relative was brought.

She said, “Let’s cover our foods, fried fish, and other foods exposed in the market… If you have to eat, eat hot foods.”.

In STMA, the Regional Environmental Analyst has declared a ban on the sale of processed vegetables by food sellers.

It has been established that such vegetables were the main source of the cholera infection.

So far, 789 cases with eight deaths have been recorded.



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