Nearly 50 people have contracted cholera while attending a health conference in Kenya’s capital. The infected delegates were among hundreds who had gathered for the four-day forum organised by the Ministry of Health at a Nairobi hotel on Tuesday. They have been isolated in a city hospital, but health officials say the number of people … Read more
Cholera, which has hit war-ravaged Yemen with 100,000 suspected cases and 789 deaths, is a highly contagious waterborne bacterial disease which can kill in a matter of hours. Caused by poor sanitation, it mainly affects poverty-stricken people, and goes hand-in-hand with misery, disaster and war. Cholera is an acute diarrhetic infection caused by a comma-shaped … Read more
The Central Regional capital, Cape Coast is a fishing port and one of the most historical cities in Ghana, founded by the people of Oguaa and is situated on its south to the Gulf of Guinea. According to 2010 population census, Cape Coast had a settlement population of 169,894 people. Cape Coast is a humid … Read more
The Central Regional capital, Cape Coast is a fishing port and one of the most historical cities in Ghana, founded by the people of Oguaa and is situated on its south to the Gulf of Guinea. According to 2010 population census, Cape Coast had a settlement population of 169,894 people. Cape Coast is a humid … Read more
The Central Regional capital, Cape Coast is a fishing port and one of the most historical cities in Ghana, founded by the people of Oguaa and is situated on its south to the Gulf of Guinea. According to 2010 population census, Cape Coast had a settlement population of 169,894 people. Cape Coast is a humid … Read more
(Cape Coast, GNA) – Twenty people have died since cholera broke out in the Central Region in July, Dr. Kwaku Anin Karikari, the Central Regional Deputy Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has said. Between Monday, July 21, when the first suspected case was reported at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East the disease … Read more
Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service has indicated that the fast killing cholera is far from over in the region and so the public should take extra precautions. Linda Van-Otoo blamed the ceaseless cholera cases recorded at the various infirmaries to the rains, which she noted contaminate drinking water and foods with … Read more