The Global Communities, a non-governmental organization has donated 24 boxes of Aquatabs, a water purification tablets to the Ghana Health Service.

The drugs, which cost 7,000 US dollars, would be distributed to the cholera epidemic regions in the country to help reduce the scare.

The donation was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Mr Emmanuel Odotei, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist of USAID, speaking with newsmen at the presentation, said Global Communities work closely with the urban-poor in solving their sanitation and water problems.

He said the organization was moved by the alarming rate at which the cholera disease was spreading in the country, hence the donation to support government in its efforts to curb the disease outbreak.

Mr Odotei said they would work in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service to help educate the people on how to administer the drugs while calling on the various District Assemblies to support in the distribution of the drugs.

Each box of the Aquatabs drugs contains 3,200 strips of tablets and each strip has 10 tablets. A tablet is used to purify 20 litres of water.

Mr Odotei said the Global Communities project started in 2009 and was working in the Greater Accra and Western Regions.

The Programme is in its third phase and would be extended to the Volta region and some part of the Northern Regions.

Dr Gloria Quansah Asare, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, who received the donation, said the items have come at an opportune time to support government in the fight against the outbreak of cholera.

She expressed gratitude to the Global Communities and the USAID for their intervention in solving the cholera problem currently confronting the country.

Present at the presentation of the donation was Mr Alberto Wilde, Country Director of Global Communities.