Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has outlined its inflicting dedication to tackle the persistent surge of cholera cases in the Central Region.

In view of this, the Ghana Health Service has set out to embark in a 4-day oral vaccination exercise across three districts in the Central Region from Friday, April 4 to Monday, April 7, 2025.

These districts include the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality, Cape Coast Metropolis and the Mfantseman Municipality, following its high number of recorded cholera cases, with estimated number of 541,798 individuals set to be vaccinated.

Persons from the ages of 1 year and above are eligible for the vaccination, as only pregnant and lactating mothers are exempted from getting vaccinated to the cholera drug.

Speaking at a stakeholders meeting at the Regional Health Directorate in Cape Coast on Thursday, Dr. Joojo Cobbinah, the Deputy Director of Public Health in the Central Region advocated the vaccination drugs as safe and thus possesses no post vaccination symptoms unlike other drugs.

To this, he charged all and sundry to avail themselves and their household for the vaccination to help solve the persistent rise of recorded cholera cases in the Region.

Dr. Joojo Cobbinah again urged the public to prioritize hygienic lifestyle by ensuring all health protocols as witnessed during the era of Covid-19, amid the vaccination exercise to be carried out.

The Head of Immunization for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ghana, Mr. Fred Osei Sarpong equally implored Ghanaians to take the sanitation of their communities into their hands instead of depend on sanitation companies for cleaning up the environment.

He elaborated that advanced countries like America have decided to withhold its funding on many health interventions, which will in effect, affect countries like Ghana who depend on the USA government for funding support for its health.

Hence, advised the need for Ghanaians to desist littering the environment and tidy the community 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, have lost close to 30 individuals to the infectious disease.

Sompaonline.com//Eric Annan