The Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service have outdoored a cholera eradication task force in Accra to help prevent cholera from spreading from town to town.
The event, which was carried out at Bukom in the Odododiodoo Constituency, was in partnership with the Better Ghana Management Service Limited (BGMSL) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited.
Dr Stella Gyamfi, of the Ashiedu Keteke Sub-Metro health directorate, said Ussher Clinic at Ashiedu Keteke recorded cholera cases of 352 and four deaths as compared to last year when the clinic encountered 651 cases with three deaths.
She said people should be educated on the importance of washing hands with soap after using the lavatory, and added that communities should be supplied with good drinking water to avoid cholera.
She also advised individuals to practice personal hygiene and avoid raw food.
The Member of Parliament for the constituency, Nii Tackie Commey, said the taskforce will visit homes, markets, towns, communities, schools and various offices to educate the people on ways of preventing the spread of the disease.
The assemblyman, Emmanuel Botchway advised his people to desist from unsocial habits. He said �you and I should change our old attitudes of throwing rubbish and toilets into gutters and littering our environment to prevent this cholera that is killing us.�
The Minister of Health, Albert S.K. Bagbin, who outdoored the task force, said government is committed to eradicate cholera.
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