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The Gomoa East District Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has dismissed media reports suggesting that 20 diarrhoea cases have been recorded in a coastal community following a water supply challenge in the district.
According to the reports, the alleged cases were linked to a shortage of potable water after the Ghana Water Company Limited’s headworks at Kwanyako was temporarily shut down.
But in a statement issued on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, the Directorate said a thorough audit of health records at the Fetteh CHPS Compound revealed no such cases. It further confirmed that checks with neighbouring health facilities also showed no diarrhoea cases within the period under review.
“The data currently available to the Directorate does not support any assertion of an outbreak or abnormal increase in diarrhoea conditions across the district,” the statement stressed.
The Directorate acknowledged ongoing challenges with access to safe drinking water in the area but clarified that the situation has not escalated into a public health emergency.
It assured residents that the district’s disease surveillance system remains fully operational, with monitoring teams deployed across all sub-districts to promptly detect and address potential health threats.
The Directorate also reaffirmed its collaboration with local authorities and partner agencies to maintain sanitation and hygiene standards, noting that there is currently no epidemiological evidence of a waterborne disease outbreak in Gomoa East
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