Minister for Health, Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Mensah said Ghana stands a high risk of recording \u00a0a case of Ebola due to the continuous interactions with the countries most affected by the disease.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”B37rXIkXLg0cAKFV7GwroUHLjBbq1Kq0″]According to the Minister, activities of fishermen on the Gulf of Guinea and relationships between Liberians and their relatives in the Budumburam camp are mostly risks factors.<\/p>\n
Dr. Agyeman Mensah who made this observation at a meeting of ECOWAS Health Ministers in Accra.<\/p>\n
\u201cGhana however stands at high risk of infection on the counts that we have Ghanaian fishermen from Sierra Leone and Liberia who might return home to their relatives and the refugee camp at Budumburam with Liberian citizens which is noted as constant interaction between them an relatives in Ghana\u201d<\/p>\n
But the Minister therefore assured Ghanaians that these inhabitants are constantly monitored \u00a0adding, \u201cthese travelers are have been identified and monitored and the local health systems have alerted their contact tracing teams to monitor and follow these returnees up to the maximum incubation period of 21 days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Mensah however said Ghana has put in place stringent measures to prevent the outbreak of the disease in the country stating, \u201cthese are indications on how far the government has gone in putting stringent measures for any possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then disclose that the even though the country has reported suspected case all tests turned out to be negative.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Ghana as at 10th<\/sup> January this year 131 suspected Ebola cases have been reported and test as the Nuguchi Memorial Institute for Medical research indicates that all are negative for Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Patricia Conteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n Minister for Health, Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Mensah said Ghana stands a high risk of recording \u00a0a case of Ebola due to the continuous interactions with the countries most affected by the disease. [contextly_sidebar id=”B37rXIkXLg0cAKFV7GwroUHLjBbq1Kq0″]According to the Minister, activities of fishermen on the Gulf of Guinea and relationships between Liberians and their relatives in the Budumburam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"tags":[15,38],"class_list":["post-82744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82744","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}