Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder affecting 2 percent of all babies born I Ghana.
Dr Manu Kombet Julius,a Physician Assistant at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital and a leader of the Wenchi Central SDA Church Health Education Unit, said Hemoglobin electrophoresis is a test that measure different types of protein called hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
He reiterated that inheritance of hemoglobin genes from parents with sickle cell trait and thalassemia trait.
Dr. Kombet said as illustrated, the couple has one chance in four that child will have the genes both for sickle Hemoglobin and for thalassemia.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited condition, two genes for the sickle hemoglobin must be inherited from one's parents who receives a gene for sickle cell disease from one parent and normal gene from the other has a condition called sickle cell trait he explained.
Dr. Manu Julius disclosed this to newsmen on Saturday November, 2019 after the Wenchi Central SDA Church Health Education Unit raised public awareness about sickle cell disease.
Public awareness education about the sickle cell disease by the health education unit of the church was aimed at reducing the mortality and incidence of complications in patients with the SDC.
Genetic counseling of individuals with abnormal haemoglobin is AS,SS while genetic counseling of individuals with normal haemoglobin is AA Dr Julius narrated.
He therefore charged Ghanaians youth who are preparing to marry to get HB electrophoresis test before they get married to help prevent their newborn babies from affecting with sickle cell disease.
Source: Nana Anfreh Damanta.
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