{"id":403205,"date":"2018-02-21T13:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403205"},"modified":"2018-02-21T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:19:11","slug":"cr-no-cholera-case-recorded-2017-regional-health-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/cr-no-cholera-case-recorded-2017-regional-health-director\/","title":{"rendered":"C\/R: No cholera case recorded in 2017 &#8211; Regional Health Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Region in 2017, did not record any cholera case according to the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah.<\/p>\n<p>In the Regional Director\u2019s words, \u201cThe Region never recorded any epidemic-prone disease; the Region did not record meningitis, cholera, yellow fever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Director made this known in his address on Tuesday at Cape Coast, at the Central Regional Health Sector 2017 Annual Performance Review Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nang-Beifubah attributed the zero record for cholera to the intensive sanitation and open defecation-free campaigns launchedin 2017 by the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies, and monitored by the office of the Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_403214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403214\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-403214\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/No-cholera-in-Central-Region-in-2017-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/No-cholera-in-Central-Region-in-2017-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/No-cholera-in-Central-Region-in-2017-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-403214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Nang-Beifubah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On assumption\u00a0 of office, the Regional Minister announced the tackling of sanitation issues as one of his four core areas.<\/p>\n<p>In some meeting with journalists in 2017, the central Regional Minister outlined how he had tasked the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the region to spearhead the region\u2019s quest for better sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>The plan included a quarterly and yearly ranking of the various districts in the region in sanitation, education, response to time and proficiency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-403215\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/No-cholera-in-Central-Region-in-2017-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/No-cholera-in-Central-Region-in-2017-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/No-cholera-in-Central-Region-in-2017-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the region recorded at least two separate cholera outbreaks in 2016 alone, with 156 cases as at November 2016, the Region also recorded 591 cholera cases in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The region was neither spared in the 2014 national record of 17,000 cholera cases with 150 deaths all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nang-Beifubah noted that in 2017, \u201cthe proportion of morbidity and mortality due to malaria continued to decline while supervised delivery increased from 57.9 percent to 61.9 percent, and institutional maternal mortality ratio reduced from 158.6 per hundred thousand live births in 2016 to 130.8 per hundred thousand live births.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Joseph Ackon Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Region in 2017, did not record any cholera case according to the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah. 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