Ghana: health risks
“Some communities were deprived of health services for about two and a half months,” says Dr Kyei Faried, acting regional director of health services for the region. "The last completely cut-off riverside village was reached only in mid-November.”
Two potential health risks that have been aggravated by the floods are malnutrition from possible food shortages to come, and the guinea-worm disease, which has been drastically reduced in Ghana over the past two decades but breeds in standing water, he said.