09
Mar
The Manhyia government hospital in Kumasi has recorded its first case of measles after many years of zero recordings of the disease at the facility. The authorities of the facility expressed worry about the emergence of the disease and its possible spread in the area due to shortages of vaccines for the treatment of the disease, which mostly affected babies from birth up to at least 18 months. Currently, the facility does not have vaccines for measles, polio, yellow fever and tuberculosis (BCG). Darius Adjei Baffour, the Disease Control Officer at the hospital, told the Ghana News Agency during a…