The NDC MP for Nabdam, Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane chastised the government for failing to release funds to fight the outbreak.
According to him, “what is happening is that even though the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture through their veterinary services and the Local Government Ministry have come in and they have put in some measures, it appears that they are not putting in enough resources to curtail this outbreak. You need to curtail this outbreak and we need to vaccinate the animals. We need to fumigate their stalls or wherever they are living. We need to prevent the movement of animals. All these measures have to be done and it requires resources.
”As I am speaking now, in the Talensi district, the District Assembly itself has spent about six hundred thousand Ghana cedis to purchase eight thousand doses of the vaccine to vaccinate the animals but this is not enough”, he adds.
As of Friday, June 2, 2023, 13 cattle and 23 sheep and goats had been confirmed dead in the two communities in the Upper East Region.
Also, 13 suspected human anthrax cases including one death have been reported from Bansi in the Binduri District.
The Minority in Parliament, therefore, cautions the government to give the menace its full attention.
“We know that the Common Fund is not coming and I have to say that we don’t have to take this thing for granted. When it gets to the human-to-human transmission, a lot of human beings will get it and they will start transferring from one person to another then we are in very bad business. It is a very serious situation and we shouldn’t let it get to that stage,” he explained”, Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane noted.
