{"id":446746,"date":"2017-12-13T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/dont-relax-in-tackling-swine-flu-pharmacist-tells-government\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:24:03","slug":"dont-relax-in-tackling-swine-flu-pharmacist-tells-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/dont-relax-in-tackling-swine-flu-pharmacist-tells-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t \u2018relax\u2019 in tackling swine flu \u2013 Pharmacist tells government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/58139209.295.jpg\" alt=\"KUMACA Student Administered Drugs\" title=\"KUMACA Student Administered Drugs\" width=\"295\" height=\"159\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Students of Kumasi Academy being adminstered medication<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513185843_727_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Following claims by health officials that the outbreak of swine flu at Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region has been contained, a Clinical Pharmacist, Dr. Marc Dzradosi, has asked public health officials not to rest on their oars.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials have assured that the swine flu, also known as the H1N1 2009, had been contained after four student deaths.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, he said guidelines on how to manage diseases, especially the contagious ones, are urgently needed.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cFrom my point of view, I don\u2019t think we should relax because for such conditions. They are contagious so once somebody is exposed, the likelihood of it spreading is high,\u201d Dr. Dzradosi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a nation, right from the beginning, we need to push this out to the whole country and activate protocols that will ensure that if anybody shows up anywhere with symptoms, they can be managed no matter where you are in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Student deaths<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Kumasi Academy, a student of Koforidua Secondary Technical School died from a meningitis infection over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest of several meningitis-related deaths in the region, where about 87 cases have been recorded in 2017 with nine deaths.<\/p>\n<p>A student of Damongo Senior High School in the Northern Region has also died from meningitis, whilst 12 others are currently on admission at the Damongo District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency protocols<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating further on what he called national protocols, Dr. Dzradosi said they are essentially concerned guidelines for managing the spread of major diseases at varying levels that are developed by public health physicians and adopted nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational protocols basically mean something that comes from the top which will be developed by our public health physicians or pharmacists on how these conditions will be contained nationwide. I heard about somebody going to three facilities and there was nobody there to take care of them. This shouldn\u2019t happen because the more they move around, if they truly have it, they are spreading it,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Role of sensitization<\/p>\n<p>He further recounted how the United States of America\u2019s Centre for Disease Control responded to the H1N1 threat in 2009 with public education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put out a lot of health education programmes for the people that took care of them, and depending on the kind of strain you have, the CDC will develop a vaccine to contain it\u2026 They also prepared focused education materials. 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