Zoonotic disease and other emerging health security threats are increasingly becoming a critical global health concern for many countries including Ghana.
It is for this matter, that the Ghana Health Service, GHS with support from USAID Breakthrough Action has an organised training workshop to equip the risk communication committee on rabies prevention and control.
The training is to take place in four districts within the Western Region.
The Western Regional Public Health Officer, Daniel Bomfey notes that there are rising incidences of rabies in different parts of the country which deserve the needed attention.
Statistics indicated that each year there are over One hundred cases of rabies recorded in the Municipality with zero death.
Kwesimintsim recorded 452 dog bites which are the highest between the years 2018 – 2022 within EKMA.
Mr Bomfey indicated that the workshop will help to draw an action plan which will aid the fight against rabies.
” We organized this important workshop for our risk communication and community engagement sub-committee to give them orientation on rabies prevention and control. As a country, rabies disease is a huge burden on us, so it has become very necessary for us to know how to prevent and control it.
This program is meant particularly for our risk communication and community engagement sub-committee, and we are privileged to have this support from Breakthrough Action Project, ” He said.
Participants of the training are drawn from the communities within the Assembly, media fraternity, health centres, and among others.
