The Manager of Lord Health Care, Mr
Wayage Augustine has explained that his institution is embarking on a free hepatitis B screening.
This exercise is in collaboration with Save
Your Liver Foundation.
He added that, the programme is free to anybody at any time.
But there are special programmes based on the
request of people, and this compels the staff to move to different place of request which demands additional lab technician especially if it is
working days.
He said that, save your liver foundation is organizing educational programme on hepatitis B in all over the country with the
exception of upper east ,upper west and the Volta region.
On the part of Isaac Agyeman Boadu, alternative medicine practitioner, hepatitis B is more
serious than HIV|AIDS but less attention has been given to it, which he described it as a bad thing added that the international communities were
rather giving funds to support education on HIV and leaving hepatitis B all alone.
He continued that, the virus can be acquired through deep
kissing, by birth , unprotected sex or using common towel with an infected person who has a cut on any part of the body.
He added that the
virus that cause hepatitis B could stay in an open environment especially in the towel and in the drinking glass for a period of seven days before it
dies.
He stressed that, education on hepatitis B is very technical but due to miss information, the media rather puts fear and panic in the
public on HIV AIDS than the fearful Hepatitis B.
Mr. Agyeman said, the international communities do not take those who claim to have gotten
cure for this disease; this is because the virus exist in two types which are the chronic and the acute types. The chronic type cannot be cured but
rather be treated to strengthen the immune system whiles the acute type can even be dealt with without taken any medication thus through the normal
food intake.
Also,the treatment of hepatitis B comes in three stages which are giving medication to render the virus inactive,to strengthen the
immune system and to support the liver.
He stressed that, if the liver remains healthy the infected person also remains healthy.
He
therefore advised Ghanaians to be careful of what they eat because "everybody is what he eats."
Story by: Evans Okai (Reporter,
Health Digest News)
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