Emergency protocols<\/strong><\/p>\nElaborating further on what he called national protocols,\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Dzradosi said they are essentially concerned guidelines for managing the spread of major diseases at varying levels that are developed by public health physicians and adopted nationwide.<\/p>\n
“National protocols basically mean something that comes from the top which will be developed by our public health physicians or pharmacists on how these conditions will be contained nationwide. I heard about somebody going to three facilities and there was nobody there to take care of them. This shouldn\u2019t happen because the more they move around, if they truly have it, they are spreading it,\u201d\u00a0he explained.<\/p>\n
Role of sensitization<\/strong><\/p>\nHe further recounted how the United States of America’s Centre for Disease Control responded to the H1N1 threat in 2009 with public education.<\/p>\n
“They put out a lot of health education programmes for the people that took care of them, and depending on the kind of strain you have, the CDC will develop a vaccine to contain it… They also prepared focused education materials. For example, the clinics had something, the hospitals had something, the pharmacies had something and that is the way I think Ghana should go.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Following claims by health officials that the\u00a0outbreak of swine flu\u00a0at Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region has been contained, a Clinical Pharmacist, Dr. Marc Dzradosi, has asked public health officials not to rest on their oars. Health officials have assured that the swine flu, also known as the H1N1 2009,\u00a0had been contained after four student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":380629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,11],"tags":[15412,3,5878,15413,1988],"yoast_head":"\n
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