Health News of Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Source: GNA
The Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) is piloting a Fight against epilepsy initiative-Ghana Project in the Birim Central Municipality.
The aim of the project is to improve access to care for people with epilepsy and to integrate the care of epilepsy into primary health care in the country.
A team from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the WHO visited the Akyem Oda Government Hospital, the Oda Old Town and the Akyem Akroso sub Municipal Health Centres to see how the project was going on.
Dr Mrs Cynthia Sottie, Focal Person for Mental Health at the GHS and National Coordinator for epilepsy, told the GNA Media Auditing and Development Tracking team that, the project was started in January.
She said the visit was to enable the team to see the work the 30 nurses who were trained for the project were doing and to support them.
The trained nurses are expected to carry out early identification and assessment of epilepsy cases, treatment and management of epilepty and mental clients, offer outreach services, home visits, health education at schools, churches and on the radio.
Dr Sottie said the visit would also enable them to see how the project was going on and plan for its sustainability and scaling up.
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Birim Central piloting epilepsy control project