Vaccination Exercise. File Photo
The Central Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service is set to roll out oral vaccination on over 500,000 persons to help curtail the surge in cholera rates in the region.
The directorate has designated a 4-day cross vaccination across three districts from Friday April 4 to Monday April 7, 2025, in the region.
The districts are the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality, Cape Coast Metropolis, and the Mfantseman Municipality, following their high numbers of recorded cholera cases, with an estimated number of 541,798 individuals set to be vaccinated.
Persons from the ages of 1 and above are eligible for the vaccination, as only pregnant and lactating mothers are exempted from getting vaccinated with the cholera drug.
The health directorate pledged its commitment to tackle the rise of the cholera cases in the region and the country at large.
Dr Joojo Cobbinah, the Deputy Director of Public Health in the Central Region, stated that the mass vaccination is safe and possesses no post vaccination symptoms, unlike other drugs.
Speaking to the media, he called on the populace to avail themselves and their households for the vaccination to help solve the persistent rise in recorded cholera cases in the Central Region.
Dr Cobbinah also urged the public to prioritise hygienic lifestyles by ensuring all health protocols, as witnessed during the era of COVID-19, amid the vaccination exercise, are carried out.
The Head of Immunisation for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ghana, Fred Osei Sarpong, equally implored Ghanaians to take the sanitation of their communities into their hands instead of depending on sanitation companies, such as Zoomlion, for cleaning up the environment.
He elaborated that advanced countries like America have decided to withhold funding on many health interventions which will, in effect, affect countries like Ghana who depend on their government for funding support for its healthcare sector.
Hence, he advised Ghanaians to desist littering the environment and clean up their communities when necessary, in other to do away with infectious diseases caused by filth, like the embattled cholera infection.
The Central Region, in its recorded cholera cases, has lost close to 30 individuals to the infectious disease.
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