Kumasi (Ash) Sept. 8, GNA – More than 15,000 children die in Ghana annually of sanitation related diseases before attaining the age of five, a United Nations Human Development report has revealed. The diseases include malaria, diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera. Mr Kweku Quansah, Programme Officer at the Environmental Health Sanitation Directorate of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment disclosed this in Kumasi at the weekend. (…) Mr Quansah was speaking at a seminar on sanitation for media practitioners in the northern sector of the country. The two-day seminar, jointly organised by the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment and the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) was attended by participants from Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions. (…)
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