OUTBREAK OF SKIN DISEASES AT BOLGA (PAGE 22, JAN 4, 2011)

THE Bolgatanga Municipal Health Centre has for the past eleven months, recorded 4,912 skin diseases, including 64 yaws cases.
A Pharmacy Technologist in-charge of the Pharmacy Unit of the health centre, Mr Noble Asakeya Alagskoma, who made this known to the Daily Graphic in Bolgatanga, said the disease affected 3,392 children and 2,520 adults.
According to him, the current situation was unacceptable considering the degree of educational programmes carried out on sustained basis by health professionals and civil society organisations like the Coalition on NGOs in Health in the Upper East Region.
He therefore made a passionate appeal to the general public to adhere strictly to personal hygiene.
Mr Alagskoma also appealed to the Disease Control Unit of the Ghana Health Service to conduct an investigation into the causes of the diseases and take realistic measures to cure the victims once and for all since they impacted negatively on productivity and also drained the health budget.