AGONA WEST MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY HOLDS EMERGENCT HEALTH COMMITTEE MEETING ON CHOLERA

14TH FEBRUARY 2025

The Agona West Municipal Assembly in collaboaration with the Regional Health Directorate on Friday, 14th February 2025 organised an emergency health committee meenting on cholera at the Assembly's conference room following the recent cholera cases recorded in the Municipality.

The objective of the meeting was to deliberate on the matter and make preventive decisions.

At the meeting, the Municipal Health Director, disclosed that Twenty-Nine (29) cases of all forms of cholera have been recorded, four (4) confirmed and one (1) death recorded.

As part of efforts to prevent the spread in the communities, the Health Director urged community members to observe the following preventive measures:

• Drink water from safe sources, i.e. boiled water or chlorinated
• Wash hands with soup under running water after taking care of the patient, visiting the toilet and before handling food
• Cook food thoroughly and eat it while hot
• Fruits and vegetables should be washed with concentrated salt and rinse with clean water from safe sources
• Dispose of refuse in a properly constructed reuse pit
• Avoid shaking hands at public gatherings, particularly funerals, during cholera outbreaks
He entreated the church leaders to enforce preventive measures during the Christmas conventions and all other gatherings.

Present are the meeting was the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, the Municipal Coordining Director, Member of the Health Committee, Chiefs and Opinion leaders