Snr. Public Health Officer In charge of TB/HIV for Wenchi Municipal in Bono Region; Mr. George Agyemang has called on the people of Wenchi to go for test whenever they coughed for more than two weeks, saying test and treatment for tuberculosis remained free in the country.
The Snr. Public Health Officer, Mr George Agyemang said it was worrisome that people’s ignorance on tuberculosis was responsible for its spread, lamenting many were not aware of free test and treatment of the disease whiles others consider it spiritual.
Mr. George Agyemang, in an interview with Ewiase Fm’s news anchor Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko, on awareness raising on World Tuberculosis Day also warned the TB patients against treating the disease with local medicine.
“Tuberculosis is an air- borne disease, anybody can be infected, that is our concern, so we have to go to the communities and create the awareness so that the people will get the right information, not to be treating cough that is more than two weeks with local medicine, people should go for investigation and treatment which is free,” he added.
Story by: Adom-nana Piesie Yaw Preko [Ewiase FM]
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