RESIDENTS OF Shiabu, Gleffe and its surrounding environs continue to suffer from severe outbreak of cholera following the inception of the rains which have formed greenish stagnant water across the communities.
The situation is so bad that residents have been compelled to cook food in bedrooms and halls for fear of contracting cholera and malaria as formed stagnant waters breed mosquitoes daily.
According to some residents who spoke to Daily Heritage, the community of Gleffe alone within a space of two weeks has recorded five deaths of children to cholera whose age range from six- months-old to nine years while Shiabu has also recorded three deaths within the same period.
Statistics at the various Health Posts in the area the paper visited revealed increased in Cholera and Malaria cases at the Out Patient Department followed by chicken pox and other minor cases of influenza.
A resident, Ama Yomoh of Gleffe who lives directly opposite a mountain of garbage and stagnant water said �we have stopped cooking in this house for the past one month because the scent and the host of house flies alone can cause a great danger to us.�
Mrs. Yomoh added �If I am to cook, I do that late in the evening or early at dawn or sometimes in my hall just to prevent moving flies having direct contact to the food.�
She said �I lost my child three years ago to an outbreak of cholera since then, my family has been cautious of the situation and my husband is trying hard to find ways and means of relocating to a less harmful environment.
�I have been insulting both adults and children who use the area as a place of convenience many times just to prevent them from the place, but they keep on coming sometimes deep in the night,� he said.
Kwame Ahenfo, a resident of Shiabu also lamented on how some unscrupulous residents have chosen the back of his house to attend nature�s call every night which has forced him to rent a new room at Mamprobi Post Office area for his wife and children.
He is, therefore, appealing to officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to strengthen efforts of stopping residents from attending nature�s call in the area.
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