The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced that health workers participating in a vaccination exercise in cholera-affected areas of the Central Region will be vaccinated before commencing their duties.
According to the Acting Director-General of GHS, Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, this measure aims to protect frontline workers and curb the further spread of the disease.
The Central Region has recorded a cumulative death toll of 14, raising serious public health concerns.
Dr. Akoriyea also emphasized the importance of contact tracing, noting that authorities have already identified families with close ties to affected patients.
Speaking to Citi News after visiting cholera patients at the Winneba Municipal Hospital, he disclosed that a team will soon be deployed to schools and market centers to educate the public on cholera prevention and control measures.
“We need to boost the morale of the health workers and make sure that they keep offering their services without fear so we decided that we start vaccinating health workers and the families of those who have it already so that they don’t contract it and keep spreading it.
“It becomes difficult with the contact tracing and so the main important thing is to vaccinate so that we don’t have an escalation.”
