By Nana Yaw @theherbal_hyper
The Ghana Health Service took to their Twitter page explaining the need to pay attention to critical global health issues like Neglected Tropical Diseases, gradually increasing the poverty rate among the vulnerable population as we put in efforts to fight COVID-19
The World Health Organisation formally recognizes at least twenty-one Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), with distinct causes, symptoms, and modes of transmission. NTDs affect people living under impoverished conditions, especially those without easy access to clean water or safe disposal of human waste.
The NTDs sighted includes; Buruli ulcer, Leprosy, Chagas disease, Dengue and chikungunya, Dracunculiasis, Echinococcosis, Foodborne trematodiases, African sleeping sickness, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy, Lymphatic filariasis, Yaws, Trachoma, Taeniasis and Cysticercosis, snakebite envenoming, Schistosomiasis, Sexually transmitted helminths, scabies and other ectoparasites, rabies, onchocerciasis, mycetoma, chromoblastomyosis and other deep mycoses
