Infectious diseases such as yellow fever, diarrhoea, typhoid fever, pneumonia and cerebrospinal meningitis are spreading among inmates of Ghana's Sekondi Central and Ekuasi prisons as a result of overcrowding, 'Accra Mail' reported on Tuesday.

The newspaper reported the assistant director of the Sekondi Central Prisons, Joseph Kwaw-Johnson, as saying this while receiving drugs worth four million cedis (US $551.724) the Pharmacy Council of Ghana donated to prisoners. Kwaw-Johnson appealed to NGOs, churches and other voluntary organisations to come to the aid of the prisoners.