{"id":1856,"date":"2022-03-28T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T09:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:14:18","slug":"dr-adwoa-wilson-urged-ghanaians-to-seek-early-treatment-of-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"DR ADWOA WILSON URGED GHANAIANS TO SEEK EARLY TREATMENT OF TB"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1856\" class=\"elementor elementor-1856\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-27f861c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"27f861c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c5b58e\" data-id=\"8c5b58e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d4e911 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2d4e911\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/health1-1024x766.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1858\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/health1-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/health1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/health1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/health1-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/health1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7a0f66d\" data-id=\"7a0f66d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24d003e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"24d003e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a89184c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a89184c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-39c3296\" data-id=\"39c3296\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b76fe5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b76fe5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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:\u2019 INVEST TO END TB, SAVE LIVES\u2019 Fifty participants screened on TB, sugar testing, and blood pressure check.<\/p><p>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\u00a0 advised Ghanaians to continues adhere to the COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}