{"id":185577,"date":"2016-01-29T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185577"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:24:04","slug":"one-case-of-meningitis-recorded-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=185577","title":{"rendered":"One case of meningitis recorded in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One case of a different strain of meningitis called Meningococcal Meningitis has been recorded in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was reported at the Ridge Hospital in Accra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QOZ4nzpGyiPwlrECfWhpKhZvdDE8CC3o&#8221;]Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Acting Medical\u00a0 officer at the hospital, Emmanuel Srofenyo, said his outfit is keenly monitoring the disease to prevent a possible spread in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat we have confirmed is meningococcal not the pneumococcal type. That is also quite a serious condition but the patient is responding to treatment and the condition is fine now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The increasing cases of different strain of meningitis have put fear in a lot of Ghanaians because of sporadic nature of the disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 37 lives have been lost due to the deadly pneumococcal meningitis which was first recorded in the Brong Ahafo region some few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, the disease has also been recorded in about five regions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the Ghana Health Service says it is adopting measures to stop the disease and has sought the assitance of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in that regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One case of a different strain of meningitis called Meningococcal Meningitis has been recorded in the Greater Accra Region. The case was reported at the Ridge Hospital in Accra. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QOZ4nzpGyiPwlrECfWhpKhZvdDE8CC3o&#8221;]Speaking to Citi News, the Acting Medical\u00a0 officer at the hospital, Emmanuel Srofenyo, said his outfit is keenly monitoring the disease to prevent a possible [&hellip;]<\/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-185577","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\/185577","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=185577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}