Health Service urged to be alert for cholera outbreak

Europa 12:40 - 18 July 2017

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This comes on the back of recent heavy rains as well as poor sanitation.

The Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA) has urged the Ghana Health Service to be alert in the likelihood of cholera outbreaks in the coming days.

This comes on the back of recent heavy rains as well as poor sanitation, the Association said.

GPHA in a statement issued Monday, July 18, 2017, and signed by Dr. Ishmael Norman, Chairman of Environment, Water and Sanitation Committee also called on “various public entities including but not limited to the Ministries of Water and Sanitation, Zongo Affairs, Environment and Technology, Information, and agencies such as the EPA, the National News Agency, together with Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies as a matter of urgency, to accelerate plans to address the worsening sanitation situation in the country to avert a major cholera outbreak.”

At least 150 died in 2014 when the country recorded the worst cholera outbreak in 30 years.

It has been three years since then and the country is being threatened with another outbreak following heavy rains which have brought in its wake filth, particularly, in the regional capital, Accra.