Health Alert: Possible cholera outbreak At TTH, As Liquid waste Runs through Common Market
Food vendors hawking around Tamale Teaching Hospital is subjected to a possible cholera outbreak due to an unhygienic environment.
Joana Somiah 
The common market at the Tamale Teaching Hospital is sitting on a ticking time bomb as wastewater believed to be emanating from the hospital's mortuary and other wards are currently running through the place.
This stems from the fact that the hospital's sewage chamber is overflowing its boundaries, Soireenews visit to the hospital revealed.
The possibility of a cholera outbreak at Tamale Teaching Hospital any time soon is high if swift measures are not taken by the authorities.
Human excreta and other liquid waste from the various Wards of the hospital including the Mortuary, Emergency, Labor Ward and washrooms have engulfed the hospital's common market where food, fruits, drinks and all kind of items are sold to patients and visitors.
The underground chamber where the hospital's liquid waste gather before it runs into a mechanised plant is situated at the centre of the common market within the premises of the hospital.
For almost a year now the chamber overflows into the common market which has become a great health concern to the traditional authority. Under the polluted environment hawkers of the market still carry out their businesses without considering the effects of the situation.
Sabta-Naa (Sanitation Chief) of Dagbon, Chief Ahmed Badawi Abdul Latif in an interview blamed the hospital authority for allowing the hawkers to operate under such unhygienic conditions.
He confirmed to Soireenews that part of the wastewater emanates from the hospital Mortuary, hence it is wrong for hawkers to operate in the hospital due to the situation at hand.
Chief Ahmed appealed to the management of the hospital to eject the hawkers from their current location and relocate them somewhere for the good interest of the public.
The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mr Misbawu Mohammed when contacted via phone said management took measures to eject the food vendors and the hawkers early this year from the common market but the process halted along the way.
He however indicated that he was not in Tamale at the time of the conversation and that he responds to the issue in due course.
