Clinical Epidemiologist Prof. Fred Binka has said that the outbreak of dengue fever has broaden to the Central Region of Ghana.
Speaking on 3FM’s Hot edition, he stated that surveillance system in the country is not robust enough to ensure we are on top of the situation.
“The disease is now in the Central Region and my concern is that we don’t have a robust surveillance system. We need to establish the density of the mosquito in the area where it was discovered to break their transmission points,” he suggested.
What initially appeared like fatigue and malaria for residents in the Eastern Region has become the nightmare they least envisaged.
The outbreak of the Dengue fever caused by the Aedes mosquitoes has recorded Eleven 11 cases in 5 districts of the Eastern Region from 103 samples picked up with 57 more samples awaiting confirmation at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Reaearch.
Patients who have been saddled with the pains of recovering from the disease recount their challenging recovery journey having to spend days at Brenase Polyclinic where most of them are undergoing rigorous treatment to combat the effects of dengue fever.
The increasing presence of Aedes mosquitoes poses a severe threat to farmers in the five agricultural districts with the dengue fever cases, potentially leading to food security crises in the long term.
With the cases spreading to other regions, the Clinical Epidemiologist is proposing that health authorities be ahead of the disease.