He said the spike in cases of CSM in the northern regions is being given the same importance by the Akufo-Addo government like COVID-19.
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CSM Outbreak: Gov't treating it as important like COVID-19 - Health Minister
Kwaku Agyeman Manu, the Minister of Health has disclosed that government has not tracked back on its responsibilities in the fight against cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM).
Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Health Minister
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The Minority Chief Whip and Member of Parliament for Asawasi constituency, Muntaka Mubarak criticised the Health Ministry for not paying much attention to CSM which has claimed more lives than COVID-19 but speaking on the floor of Parliament, Kwaku Agyeman Manu said combatting the disease is a priority for the government.
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the government is working with experts to deal with the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in the five regions of the north.
He said public education has been intensified in the affected areas while stakeholders are being engaged to help curb the disease.
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Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu
Pulse Ghana
“We are working on how to stop the CSM and we are chasing the bacterial like how we are chasing COVID-19. We are doing education, sensitization, community engagement and all that can be done. We are even doing social distancing with the CSM,” he said.
He added that, “we are doing education, we are doing sensitization, we are doing community engagements all that can be done. The social distancing that we are talking about for COVID, we are still talking social distancing for meningitis and there are teams that are going around trying to educate and sensitize such that people won’t get closer to each other.”
As of the 15th April 2020, a total of 258 cases have been reported in Upper West out of the 409 cases reported in the 5 regions of the north, resulting in 40 deaths.
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