Asante-Mampong sets up health surveillance system

The Asante-Mampong Municipal Health Directorate, has established a surveillance system to promote quick response and management of disease outbreaks.

Madam Rebecca Teni Dokurugu, Municipal Health Director, said under the system, volunteers have been trained in the communities to report on all diseases.

She made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Mampong in the Ashanti Region. at the start of a mass immunisation exercise to protect children in the municipality against poliomyelitis.

A total of about 19,207 children under the age of five years have been targeted to be covered during the three-day exercise.

Last year, 19,200 children in the municipality were immunised.

This represented 99.5 per cent coverage.

Madam Dokurugu said 160 volunteers have been recruited to carry out this year’s immunization exercise and advised mothers to make sure they send their children to designated centres in their communities.

She appealed to the people to also maintain good environmental sanitation to prevent diseases, saying poliomyelitis virus becomes active in dirty surroundings.

Meanwhile, the Asokwa Sub-Metropolitan Area has targeted 103,732 children for polio immunization.

Mr John Baffoe Yeboah, the Disease Control Officer, said 580 volunteers are carrying out the job.**