The quantity of cerebrospinal meningitis conditions recorded in the Higher West Location have now improved to 315.
The tally is an boost by 42 from the preceding 273 reported on April 15.
The variety of fatalities have also amplified from 43 to 45.
Deputy Overall health Minister Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye who led a group of overall health gurus to region manufactured the announcement on JoyNews’ ‘Beyond the Lockdown’ on Sunday.
He included, even so, that there are only five lively cases and 4 are in steady ailment.
He dispelled reports that the CSM has been dismissed thanks to the attention on Covid-19 pandemic he said the string remaining dealt with is also novel and is obtaining the needed interest.
“The form we have been working with is not acknowledged to cause outbreaks,” he claimed.
Higher West Regional Director of the Ghana Health Support Osei Kuffour Afreh explained to JoyNews in April that the widespread cases of meningitis are as a result of unavailable vaccines to deal with the ailment.
Dr. Afreh stated there are no globally authorized injections as a result the latest vaccines that were employed in the earlier are no match for this breed of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM).
“We are dealing with a subtype X for which there are no vaccines in the environment that have been certified by the Globe Wellness Organisation,” he explained.
