Public Service Announcement: Ghana Health Service Issues Ebola Alert
The deadly Ebola Virus Disease resurfaced in Africa once again. Furthermore, this was after the latest epidemic that a couple years ago.
Moreover, the disease is at the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Central Africa.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service said they received an alert from the World Health Organization (WHO). Furthermore, this concerns the return of the disease. Therefore, there is a high alert to monitor Ghana’s entry points.
Ghana Health Service on Ebola
“We in Ghana have been alerted and we are putting all our surveillance in place. Also, we are on high alert. Ports and harbours alerted as well as the Regional and District Directors are alerted on the signs and symptoms of Ebola.”
Dr Nsiah-Asare said people should not feel complacent that the disease is in DRC which might seem a bit far from Ghana.
“…Nowadays within a matter of six hours somebody can move from a distance of about 3,000 kilometres from another place so the world is a global village so wherever there is an outbreak it is very close to us.”
The last outbreak of the disease started in 2014 and touched Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali and Nigeria. Meanwhile, others in the U.S, U.K and Spain had isolated incidents. That outbreak, the worst in history, killed approximately 11,310 people.
