Of cholera and Ebola virus disease in Ghana.

CHOLERA OUTBREAKS There are lessons to be learnt from cholera outbreaks in Ghana. In his inaugural lecture, Professor G. A. Ashitey provides an account on the first cholera epidemic of 1970 in Ghana. Cholera outbreak in West Africa was first reported in Guinea. Although denied by the Government of Guinea the World Health Organisation had to break protocol and establish for the first time that “the health of the world’s people is more important than the sovereignty of member countries.”