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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the first record case of Lassa Fever in the country at Tema General Hospital.
Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service who was speaking to the media in Accra on Thursday, said one person has been confirmed dead from Lassa Fever.
Lassa Fever is transmitted to humans via contact with food or household items contaminated with the urine, saliva faeces, and blood of infected rodents.
The confirmation, Dr Nsiah-Asare said, followed a test conducted by the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research.
He said currently all the frontline staff at the hospital that handled the patient before he died, were being screened, while further investigations to trace the background and all contacts of the deceased were being pursued to prevent the spread of the virus. He, therefore, called on the public to be extremely cautious of roddents and maintain good hygiene. He also urged the public to report any suspected case of the disease.
The GHS in February issued an alert of the likelihood of outbreak of Lassa fever in the country.
[FONT="]Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease endemic in West Africa but with no previous case reported in Ghana. We describe the first two laboratory confirmed cases of Lassa fever from the Ashanti Region of Ghana detected in October and December, 2011.[/FONT]
Suspected Lassa Fever Cases Should Not Be Referred
Tema, March 5, GNA - The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has directed health facilities in the country not to refer any suspected Lassa fever cases to Tema General Hospital or any higher institution.
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The Director General added that, the hospitals after isolating the suspected patient, should immediately report the case to the respective supervising district health directorate for a management team to be dispatched to the place for assessment.
The team he stated, would provide the needed transportation when the need to refer to the infectious centre arose.
The directive is to curb the unnecessary spread of the disease through transporting and handling of a suspected patients from one hospital to the other.
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