Three Municipal Chief Executives (MCEs) in the Central Region have begun implementing urgent measures to curb the spread of Cholera, especially in hard-hit areas like Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East district.

The disease has already claimed five lives while over 100 suspected cases have been recorded.

The spread has been linked to many factors including, unhygienic conditions and the cut in flow of clean water due to the Kasoa-Winneba road construction.

The Awutu Senya MCE, Anita Love Oboe Amissah says to contain the spread, treatment for those affected has been made free.

“The Municipal Assembly in collaboration with the health directorate has been phenomenal in the sense that most of the PPEs needed are being supplied. Education is still ongoing alongside disinfection. So there have been a lot of interventions. Concerning sanitation, we are on course. We realise that some of the areas that the patients were coming from were because of water so the assembly has started distributing water to such places..,” she enumerated the interventions put in place.

Meanwhile, the Municipal Health Director, Dr. Stanley Aidoo indicates that 26 cases have been discharged.

He added that “so far the number of cases has declined and we are not having the number of cases being rushed in like before. This is because the sensitization in the community is ongoing. I think that the people of Awutu Senya East and surrounding communities have received the message.”

In Awutu Senya West, 14 cases were suspected. DCE Moses Arhinful Acquah says only four cases have been confirmed with two people treated and discharged while two are on admission.

He noted that health education has been intensified focusing on proper sanitation practices in the area.

“We’ve discharged 10, we are doing well to contain it,” he stated.

Education is also ongoing in Gomoa East with 26 cases. The DCE, Solomon Darko Quao says many patients have been treated and discharged.

“Only three out of the 26 are on admission, the rest have been treated and discharged.”