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More than 15,000 Ghanaians lost their lives to chronic hepatitis B and C-related liver diseases in 2022, Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, Director General of Ghana Health Service, has revealed.<\/p>\n
This according to him, translates to approximately 42 deaths every day, predominantly affecting young adults who suffer from liver failure and cancer.<\/p>\n
He said this at this year’s Ghana Hepatitis Stakeholders Conference held in Accra yesterday.<\/p>\n
Dr Aboagye said the significant burden of chronic hepatitis B and C in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> More than 15,000 Ghanaians lost their lives to chronic hepatitis B and C-related liver diseases in 2022, Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, Director General of Ghana Health Service, has revealed. This according to him, translates to approximately 42 deaths every day, predominantly affecting young adults who suffer from liver failure and cancer. He said this at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00350546:a23575bf5dc14a118faa60ea7cd0d759:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[49628,258,256,7222,7165,9028,11232,6605,4508,4509,7921,13111,49627,31438,257,254],"class_list":["post-181415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-aboagye","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chronic","tag-day","tag-die","tag-diseases","tag-due","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaians","tag-hepatitis","tag-kuma","tag-liver","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00350546:a23575bf5dc14a118faa60ea7cd0d759:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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