{"id":43979,"date":"2014-09-02T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=43979"},"modified":"2014-09-02T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T08:01:36","slug":"cholera-hits-cape-coast-kills-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/cholera-hits-cape-coast-kills-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholera hits Cape Coast, kills four"},"content":{"rendered":"
About 153 cases of cholera have been recorded in Cape Coast in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Four of the patients have died, with three deaths occurring at the Metropolitan Hospital at Bakaano while the other occurred at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Director of Health Services, Mr Samuel Sosi said the situation is being managed to curtail the spread.<\/p>\n
He noted that cases were being reported at the Metropolitan Hospital, the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Hospital and the Ewim Government Hospital.<\/p>\n
The Director of Health Services at UCC, Dr Kibiru Azeez said in an interview that 30 cases of cholera had been recorded at the hospital since last week.<\/p>\n
He indicated that 27 of the cases had been confirmed as cholera and treated. The three other cases whose results came out negative have also been treated and discharged.<\/p>\n
He said the cases came from Kotokuraba, others from London Bridge while a few others came from Elmina. Some of the victims were visitors from Accra.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, the metropolitan health directorate in collaboration with the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly organised a massive clean up to rid the city of filth.<\/p>\n
Mr Sosi said there had been several announcements of the cases to ensure that the people observed proper hygiene to bring the situation under control.<\/p>\n
He also indicated that the deaths were due to late arrivals at the hospitals.<\/p>\n
Dr Azeez commended the regional health directorate for the prompt support in dealing with the situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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