The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has revealed that five cases of monkeypox have been reported in the Eastern, Western and Greater Accra regions.
Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye made this revelation at a press briefing today, Wednesday, June 8 2022.
This announcement comes after the Ghana Health Service (GHS) earlier debunked claims of monkeypox detection in the country.
In a latest development, the Ghana Health Service says it has recorded five cases of monkeypox out of the 12 suspected cases.
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According to Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, no death has occurred among the reported cases.
“So far since the outbreak in Europe occurred, we tested 12 suspected cases in Ghana since 24 May. Currently, we have confirmed five cases in three regions – Eastern, Western and Greater Accra – this is where we discovered the five cases, no death has occurred among the cases here,” he said.
“One of the cases has been recorded in a Ghanaian who travelled to the US from Ghana, he might have picked it from here,” Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye told press men.
There are now about 237 confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox worldwide.
The UN Health agency have announced plans to contain the monkeypox virus.
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