Due to the shortage of drugs to treat patients at the Ganta Leprosy and TB Rehabilitation Center in Nimba County, the number of Buruli Ulcer cases have reached 300. Buruli Ulcer is an emerging infectious disease and is the third most common mycobacterial disease of the immunocompetent host after tuberculosis and leprosy. On the tour of the center on April 17, 2019, the Officer-in-Charge of the hospital, John Saa Brimah, said the government stopped supplying the treatment drugs for the illness since July, 2018. “We are receiving patients here everyday, but we do not have the required drugs to treat them,” he said. “Those who cannot afford the cost had left, but they eventually ended up losing their lives,” he added.

Source: Daily Observer April 18, 2019 02:26 UTC