The Municipal Health Directorate of the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) joined the rest of the world to commemorate the World Tuberculosis Day with the people of the municipality to raise an awareness of the disease, which is the second killer to COVID-19.According to Dr Adwoa Wilson, the municipal health director of La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly the death statistics of tuberculosis remains as one of the public health threat in Ghana and globally. She mentioned that the WHO report on TB shows that the disease is the second leading communicable killer globally after COVID-19. She urged individual to seek early treatment to prevent complication.
Answering questions, Dr Adwoa Wilson mentioned that the district recorded 59 cases in 2021. She said between the months of January 2022 to March 2022, the district recorded 13 cases.The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Health Directorate in collaboration with La Polyclinic and TB Unit marked the World TB Day on Thursday March 24, 2022 at La Maamli Taxi Rank theme:’ INVEST TO END TB, SAVE LIVES’ Fifty participants screened on TB, sugar testing, and blood pressure check.
The Municipal Health Director of La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), Dr Adwoa Wilson has entreated the general public not to lose sight of the COVID-19 pandemic as it has come to stay like other infectious disease globally and advised Ghanaians to continues adhere to the COVID-19 protocols.