Residents sensitized on Ebola in Talensi

 Awareness creation has become a major tool to dealing with the current outbreak of the Ebola Virus which has become the greatest health concerns to the world in recent times. The deadly disease which is seen to be a threat to human survival has already claimed over two thousand lives in the West African sub-region including Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Nigeria. Though not recorded in Ghana yet, the government of Ghana is not taking any chances and has through the Health Ministry taken a number of measures to deal with any recorded case. As such the Talensi District Assembly in collaboration with the Talensi District Health Directorate also complimented government efforts by embarking on district wide sensitization campaign on the disease to educate people on precautionary measures to avoid the disease and how to identify it. Speaking to Ghanadistricts.com, District Chief Executive for the area, Edward Awunnore said that while the Ebola virus may be contagious disease, it is however one that requires directs contact, adding that it can be transmitted to humans through the bites of animals that are reservoirs for the virus such as monkeys and fruit bats. She noted it can however be transmitted by exposure to the excretion, blood or other bodily fluids of these reservoirs animals which can include dogs. He therefore urged the people to practice regular hand washing with soap and running water, avoid contact with body fluid and other things that could place them at risk for contracting the virus. In a related development, the assembly has sensitized residents living along the White Volta to move to higher grounds as they pick signals that the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso would soon be opened. This will prevent loss of lives and properties in the event the dam is opened, the DCE added.

 

 

 

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