The Ghana Health Service has\u00a0denied reports that the Ashanti Region has recorded some cases of the deadly\u00a0pneumococcal meningitis.<\/p>\n
There were reports over the weekend that two persons had died from the disease in the Offinso Municipality but the\u00a0Deputy Director and Head of Surveillances at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Franklin Aseidu-Bekoe during a media briefing on Monday said\u00a0\u201cI want to state that currently there is no outbreak of pneumococcal meningitis in the Ashanti Region.\u201d<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”0vvGGjzt0GSeyq86jV4TVCSab6sB1sj6″]He said the region has recorded 7 similar cases which he said is \u201csporadic\u201d from 6 districts but said it should not be linked to the outbreak in the Brong Ahafo Region.<\/p>\n
Dr. Asiedu-Bekoe further explained that \u201cthe organisms isolated in the reported cases in the region are actually Neisseria meningitis type C, which is very different from pneumococcal meningitis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pneumococcal meningitis kills 33<\/strong><\/p>\n The outbreak of the deadly pneumococcal meningitis has so far claimed 33 lives with 153 cases being recorded.<\/p>\n Dr. Franklin Aseidu-Bekoe explained that these figures are based on \u201cretrospective and new cases.\u201d<\/p>\n According to him there are cases in this total number which tested negative for meningitis and thus remain as suspected cases. He also explained that currently there are reported cases of pneumococcal meningitis in seven districts in the Brong Ahafo Region and two in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n The highest recorded cases are in Wenchi, Tain, Techiman Municipal and Techiman North all in the Brong Ahafo Region.<\/p>\n Sene West District has recorded the third highest number of cases but has also recorded no fatalities.<\/p>\n Orders to NHIA<\/strong> –<\/p>\n By: Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ghana Health Service has\u00a0denied reports that the Ashanti Region has recorded some cases of the deadly\u00a0pneumococcal meningitis. There were reports over the weekend that two persons had died from the disease in the Offinso Municipality but the\u00a0Deputy Director and Head of Surveillances at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Franklin Aseidu-Bekoe during a media briefing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Ministry has also directed the National Health Insurance Authority to prioritize the payment of claims submitted by facilities managing cases of meningitis.<\/p>\n