An increase in the number of cholera cases in the Upper East Region has resulted in three deaths so far in the region.
Ten out of the 13 districts in the region have in Bawku in the Upper East region are on the increase with three people dead so far.
The region has recorded over a hundread cholera cases in 10 out of its 13 districts.
The rate of increase has alarmed health officials in the three regions of the North that were relatively cholera-free until a few weeks ago.
The Deputy Public Health Director in the region, Dr. Mensah Afful, saaid that they are doing all they can to bring the situation under control.
[contextly_sidebar id=”yMliFICNnc2RKbfFlSWBGBRBB94jYXMY”]”We have had one hundred and twenty-seven cases and we have done damage cost. Prior to Bawku, we had quite a number of districts also havingcholera at a point in time but several of them have been contained except a couple of them in Bawku and Pusiga,” he told Citi News.
“The number of [cholera cases] we have had is not as substantial as it was in the last two days when the incident began.”
The Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Victor Bampoe in an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show earlier in October revealed that the number of recorded cholera cases across the country had jumped from 10,000 to over 18,000, recorded in 96 districts.
He stated that the government was worried about the number of cholera cases and that everyone is responsible for the extent of the outbeak in the country.
“There is more than enough blame to go around when it comes to cholera,” he added
“We are not happy about it at all and we think that it’s not something that has to be happening now. Cholera is being taken seriously at the very highest levels. What we want to do right now is to curtail and to stop right now.”
Over 150 people have died so far across the country since the cholera outbreak started in February.
By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana