The Greater Accra Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has issued an alert on a possible outbreak of cholera.
The GHS Regional Director, Dr Linda Van Otoo, cautioned on the outbreak of the disease citing the perennial rains amidst flooding in parts of Accra as reasons for a possible outbreak of cholera and other infectious diseases like diarrhoea.
Precautionary measures
She urged the public to wash their hands with soap and under running water before preparing food, and after visiting the toilet.
The public are also advised to eat warm foods while uncooked foods must be washed thoroughly before eating.
Meanwhile the capital, Accra has been the focal point by the GHS to always stem the tide on cholera, with Accra being the starting point of a cholera outbreak every year.
About ninety per cent of the cases reported in 2015 were in the metropolis, while the Volta and Central regions also reported a number of cases.
Ghana recorded the worst cholera epidemic in three decades in the year 2014, which registered 28,975 cases with 243 deaths from 130 out of the 216 districts in all 10 regions
