UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
14 November 2008
Ten people have been confirmed dead and two are hospitalised following an outbreak of meningitis in north-central Ghana.
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Ghana has very little in the way of a Healthcare system and much less in the form of competant doctors.The entire Health care system is populated by untrained,self trained doctors.The fact is that Japan has the Naguchi Virology center in Accra Those Japanese Virologist could contain the infection and the first case is an epidemic When I was in Ghana I observed many people misdiagnosed who had meningitis. Perry Fisher,MD
The fact that there is an epidemic of Meningitis presently in G