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Ghana:
Containing the Cholera Outbreak in Accra
Ghanaian Chronicle, 4 November 2011
It was always going to happen. The moment the rains came, and people's offices and dwelling places were flooded, it was obvious a cholera outbreak would follow. At a sensitisation… Read more »
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Ghana:
Let's Have Commercial Toilets At All Fuel Stations to Curb Open Defecation
Public Agenda, 28 October 2011
Ghanaian engineer and technologist, Dr. Albert M. Wright, who introduced the Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit (KVIP), has prescribed the mandatory construction of toilets at the… Read more »
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Ghana:
Suspected Cholera Outbreak in Atebubu District
Ghanaian Chronicle, 18 August 2011
The Atebubu District Directorate of the Ghana Health Services is alarmed over the increasing rate of diarrhoea cases being recorded in the area, and which has already recorded one… Read more »
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Ghana:
Cholera And Unhygienic Environment Work Hand in Hand
Ghanaian Chronicle, 3 August 2011
Almost every day the print and electronic media in the country report on incidences of cholera in almost all the regions in the country. This year alone, the rate at which the… Read more »
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Ghana:
Ridding Accra of Filth
Ghanaian Chronicle, 14 June 2011
Accra is becoming better known for its filth than the capital city of a nation that is supposed to have entered the Middle Income bracket. Everywhere one goes in the national… Read more »
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Ghana:
Dr. Prempeh Lauds KMA Health Inspectorate Unit
Ghanaian Chronicle, 6 June 2011
A Kumasi-based private medical practitioner, Dr. Edward Prempeh of the St. Edward Clinic, has lauded the efforts of the Health Inspectorate Unit of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly… Read more »
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Ghana:
Ketu South Shows the Way in Cholera Elimination
Ghanaian Chronicle, 31 May 2011
The predictability of cholera outbreaks in Ghana as an annual ritual did nothing to stem public outrage at the epidemic proportions this year that recorded a national case fatality… Read more »
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Ghana:
Environmental Sanitation And Cleanliness - the Way to Good Health
Ghanaian Chronicle, 24 May 2011
I do not believe my cherished readers have forgotten the axiom, "cleanliness is next to godliness," and what some also say about "the health of a nation determines how wealthy that… Read more »