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Volume 6 Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapy
ISSN: 2332-0877 Infection Congress 2018
March 01-02, 2018
March 01-02, 2018 Berlin, Germany
5th International Congress on
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Prevention of cholera outbreak in Chorkor, Accra-Ghana
Seth Omari Mensah1, Mary Oderba Ashley2, Hitesh Toor3, Rhodaline Yayra Odoi4, Benjamin Abrokwa-Ansah1 and Nlend Michel Pharrel1
1Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine
2Deputy Director of Nursing Service Korle-bu, Ukraine
3Hitesh Impex Ghana-Limited, Ghana
4Dnipropertrovsk Medical Institute, Ukraine
Statement of the Problem: Chorkor is a fishing community in Accra, Ghana. It has a population of about 3000 people.
Chorkor like many other communities close to the capitals of many West African countries suffers from overcrowding and
pollution due to the inability of town planning activities to catch up with rural urban migration. Cholera is one of the leading
causes of morbidity and mortality in Chorkor. The incidence of cholera tends to increase during the rainy season and cholera
is responsible for about 30% of the total deaths in Chorkor. A close second is tuberculosis which is responsible for 15% of the
total deaths and can easily be attributed to overcrowding.
Methodology &Theoretical Orientation: We carried out a descriptive cross sectional study to investigate the epidemiological
link of the cholera outbreak in Chorkor Greater Accra region of Ghana. Index cases were identified with the help of line
lists. Univariate analyses were expressed as frequency distributions, percentages, mean±standard deviation, and rates (attack
rates, case-fatality rates etc.) as appropriate. Maps were drawn using Arc GIS and Epi info software to describe the pattern of
transmission.
Findings: We found 1733 cases with 20 deaths (CFR=1.2%) with an overall attack rate of approximately 25 per 3000 population
with sex specific attack rates of 24% and 18% for males and females respectively. 90 stool samples yielded V. cholerae O1 Ogawa
with ciprofloxacin and tetracycline being sensitive to the cholera strains.
Conclusions & Significance: The lack of personal hygiene, safe drinking water, open defecation, poor sanitation and food
were some of the causes of the cholera outbreak in Chorkor. We recommend the Ministries of Local Government and Rural
Development, Works and Housing and Water Resources to ensure proper liquid and solid waste disposal systems and provide
adequate potable water to the populace and also our research with the help of sustainable medical missions helped curb cholera
in Chorkor with the distribution of fliers which educated them more on how cholera could be prevented.
Recent Publications
1. Osei F B and Duker A A (2008) Spatial and demographic patterns of cholera in Ashanti region-Ghana. Int J Health
Geogr. 7(1):1.
2. Garg P, Chakraborty S, Basu I, Datta S, Rajendran K, Bhattacharya T, et al. (2000) Expanding multiple antibiotic
resistance among clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae isolated from 1992–7 in Calcutta, India. Epidemiol Infect.
124:393–9.
3. Shears P (2001) Recent developments in cholera. Curr Opin Infect Dis.14(5):553–8.
Biography
Seth Omari Mensah is a 5th year Medical Student of Kharkov National Medical University of Ghanaian Nationality. He has attended numerous conferences held in
Ukraine, Denmark and Netherlands regarding various topics of healthcare to share and obtain ideas to assist the public in developing countries with a focus on his
Nation of Origin, Ghana, to improve their health conditions.
Seth Omari Mensah et al., J Infect Dis Ther 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-038