Bono East Region Records first case of Monkey Pox Disease but Health Authorities Pledge to Prevent the Spread.
Honorable Adu-Gyan made this revelation at his office in Techiman during the inauguration ceremony of a 9-member Bono East Regional Health Committee where he charged them to discharge their duties effectively to improve health delivery in the region.
Richard Adu 
Honourable Kwasi Adu-Gyan, Bono East Regional Minister has confirmed that the region has recorded the first case of Monkey Pox disease but has swiftly assured the citizenry that the Regional Coordinating Council and Health Authorities are working assiduously to prevent its spread.
Honorable Gyan made this revelation at his office in Techiman during the inauguration ceremony of a 9-member Bono East Regional Health Committee where he charged them to discharge their duties effectively to improve health delivery in the region.
Speaking in an interview with the Media later on after the inauguration, Dr. Fred Adomako Boateng, the Bono East Regional Director of Health said, the first Monkey Pox patient is a worker in Techiman and amongst some 8 other people whose samples were taken for a laboratory test and later confirmed positive but he is responding to treatment in isolation.
For his part, Dr. Sefah Sarpong Bediakoh, the Chairman of the Ghana Health Service Governing Council who inaugurated the Bono East Committee charged the members to advise the Regional Health Directorate in fulfillment of the Ghana Health Service and Teaching Hospitals Act, 1996 (Act 525).
Finally, Dr. Baffoe Gyan, a Heart Surgeon at the University Of Ghana Medical Centre in Accra and Chairman of the Bono East Regional Health Committee on behalf of his members pledged to work tirelessly to improve the health situation in the region.
Story by Opamago Paparichy.
