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Authorities are reporting that a total of 56 cholera cases have been recorded since the outbreak in the Kasoa enclave which initially recorded about five cases.
Forty-six (46) patients are on admission and responding to treatment while the death toll as reported last week remains at five.
The cases relating to main Kasoa residents stand at 15 and the remainder account for cases brought in from other adjoining districts such as Gomoa East and Ga South.
Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye after a visit to the Kasoa area for a stakeholders meeting on Monday said the Service had instituted a plan that will ensure an effective treatment and also mitigate spread especially from health facilities.
He announced also that the situation had improved in the Ada area where the outbreak began.
Meanwhile, he has urged all regional health departments to be on the alert and also put in place preventive measures against the spread while admonishing the public to observe high levels of hygiene and sanitation.
“Let’s ensure that we keep a sanitary environment around us. We wash our hands all the time as we were doing in COVID time. Schools must ensure that they have WASH facilities, and running water to wash their hands with soap, workplaces must have that, and marketplaces must do all the needful to ensure that a sanitary environment is important. So that even if someone has it you don’t get it,” he stated.
source: citinewsroom.com
