GHS to direct public profiling on Marburg Virus - Dr. Kumah-Aboagye
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has unveiled that his outfit will direct a public profiling program on the Marburg Virus Disease that has been distinguished.
As per Dr. Kuma-Aboagye, the profiling is to decide the degree of the spread of the flare-up of the Marburg Virus (MVD) in Ghana, 3newsroom.com reports.
He added that the help is at present treating the instances of the MVD recorded as a limited flare-up and it is giving its best for guarantee that it doesn't spread to different pieces of the country.
"… the cross country profiling of Marburg infection will occur to know the degree of spread. For the present, this is being treated as a confined flare-up," the Director-General is cited to have said in a meeting on TV3.
He further expressed that GHS will give specialists, attendants and other wellbeing area laborers with more private defensive hardware (PPE) to assist them with safeguarding themselves as they deal with patients.
"The help will give more PPE to wellbeing laborers to have the option to battle these sicknesses however wellbeing laborers should be more cognizant… as forefront laborers, that is our work. We simply must be more mindful and accept that it is the kind of work we do," he added.
In the interim, a virologist at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research, Dr. Michael Owusu, has forewarned Ghanaians to avoid bats as well as abstain from embracing and handshakes, as a feature of endeavors to contain the spread of the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD).
As per him, while the world attempts to think of an immunization, sticking to these actions will guarantee that the episode of the infection is contained in the country.
"In a brief time, when Marburg is turning into an issue … and immunizations and medications are not accessible, I think the careful steps are vital. The COVID conventions, guaranteeing you clean up guaranteeing that you limit the admission of shrub meat, particularly in the networks impacted however much you can… particularly things like bats," he said in a JoyNews interview.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has uncovered that two individuals have passed on in the wake of getting the dangerous Marburg infection in Ghana.
As per the help, the two cases were distinguished in networks in the Ashanti district.
The GHS added that 98 individuals are currently under isolation as thought contact cases.
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