It is reported that around 100 children in Ghana’s northern region have the measles.
This is according to Dr. Hilda Mantebea Boye, the Paediatrics Society of Ghana’s incoming president.
The figures come amid the shortage of baby vaccines nationwide.
The Ministry of Health has been unable to secure the procurement of these vaccines since the year began, and as a result, Ghana ran out of crucial BCG and OPV vaccines.
In comparison to the OPV, the main purpose of the BCG vaccination is to protect infants against contracting tuberculosis.
Other essential vaccines to prevent diseases such as measles, whooping cough, etc. are also in short supply.
On the back of this, Dr Mantebea Boye while speaking on JoyNews said the cases is likely to increase if an intervention is not carried out immediately.
“At the last count in the northern region, we have more than a hundred children who we suspect have measles. And it is very worrying to us.
“This is something ongoing so data is still being collected and because of the shortage of vaccines we expect that many more children could be affected by this. So the infection is likely to rise as the days go by,” she said on Sunday.