WHO provides Ghana with vaccines against H1N1

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given Ghana 2.4 million doses of vaccines to cater for 10 percent of its population against the H1N1 Influenza.

    
These vaccines would cover health and community based surveillance workers, security personnel, pregnant women and children as well as people whose immune systems had been affected by other diseases to help reduce maternal and child deaths, Mr. Jacob Kojo Aleeba, Upper Regional Surveillance Officer has said.

    
Mr. Aleeba said this at a sensitisation forum to educate the media and security personnel on influenza H1N1 2009 on Monday.

    
He said the Regional Health Directorate was working round the clock to ensure that the H1N1 Influenza was properly managed and as a result 60 workers from the Volta River Authority) and 300 health personnel had been sensitised on the disease.

      
He reminded the people about the cerebro spinal meningitis (CSM) and said unlike the H1N1 Influenza vaccines for immunization against CSM had not yet arrived in the region.

    
Mr. Aleeba said people should avoid living in overcrowded areas and urged them to report headache and neck pains to health facilities on time.

 
Dr. Richard Wodah-Seme at the Regional Hospital in Wa, said Ghana had recorded 53 cases of the diseases with most of the cases confined to Accra.