{"id":46086,"date":"2014-09-09T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=46086"},"modified":"2014-09-09T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:11:35","slug":"parliamentary-health-committee-to-meet-mahama-over-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=46086","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Health Committee to meet Mahama over cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Health is expected to hold a meeting with President Mahama to devise ways of effectively dealing with the Cholera disease.<\/p>\n

The disease has so far claimed over 80 lives with more than 10,000 cases recorded across the country.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0<\/span>outbreak has also created panic<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>in the country as health workers battle to contain the disease.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”7sFnRsMd2Lt3fedRUKZRsIYEj9qBbsxF”]The Committee says the rate at which the epidemic is spreading in the country is too fast.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/b> ranking member of the health committee of Parliament, Dr. Richard Anane said the increasing spate of the disease compelled them to channel their concerns to the President.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally we will have had to pass somewhere else but \u2026because of the urgent nature; we think that the President should know the concerns raised by stakeholders where we met them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are representatives of the people and we have to show our concerns and that is why we have met stakeholders and we are going out of the norm \u2026 to inform the President about the problem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Though the Ghana Health Service (GHS) earlier banned the sale of foods <\/a><\/strong>across the country to address the problem, Dr. Anane said various stakeholders have been slow in devising measures to prevent a further spread of the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should we be dying, why have we been so slow in the initiation of the necessary action…to stem the menace. Why is that this thing, since 1970 has been recurring and why is that even now it has been recurring frequently?”<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Health will on Wednesday distribute about 1,000 pieces of protective gears<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to some tertiary institutions in the country in a bid to prevent the possible outbreak and spread of the deadly Ebola Virus.<\/p>\n

A Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa in an earlier interview with\u00a0Citi News\u00a0<\/strong>disclosed that the government had ordered 10,000 pieces of the protective gears into the country.<\/p>\n

It subsequently directed tertiary institutions to also establish Ebola isolation centers on their campuses.<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0Citi News<\/b>, the PRO of the Ministry of Health, Tony Goodman noted that the ministry has taken stock of only 1,000 .<\/p>\n

He said the items will \u00a0distributed the universities and other institutions under the supervision of the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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