Management of the Bongo District Hospital in the Upper East Region have refuted claims of a recorded case of monkeypox infection.
There were posts on social media that suggested that a woman in her mid-40 reported to the Bongo District Hospital in April with some rashes and swollen lymph nodes. The condition was suspected to be monkeypox.
The woman, according to the report, spent over a month at the facility and was discharged on May 22nd, 2022.
But speaking to our reporter, Moses Apiah in a phone interview, the Medical Superintendant, in charge of the facility, Dr. William Gudu, said no monkeypox cases have been recorded at the facility, hence the public should disregard such information.
“I have been on duty since, and we, as a health facility, have not received or recorded such a case. I entreat the public to disregard such information. What I would rather appeal to the public is to be careful about how they spread information. This is a new disease that we should be careful of, so if we begin playing with it, without careful thoughts, we are doing ourselves more harm because the day that it will be real, people may not take it seriously. And you can imagine how that will lead us,” he said.
Monkeypox is a viral infection caused by the Monkeypox virus and can be transmitted from animals to humans, and from infected humans to humans.
It has symptoms quite similar to smallpox, albeit less severe.
Primarily occurring in West and Central Africa, monkeypox was known to inflict on those who live close to tropical rainforests and has now been spreading to the urban areas. The animals that are carriers are mostly non-human primates(monkeys)and rodents.
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