Ketu South

Overview

All over the years Ketu South Municipal Health Directorate was actively involved in series of activities and programmes to provide quality health services to its people and neighboring countries as they share boarder with Togo. Even though the Municipality was challenged with a lot of issues ranging from late release of limited funds, erratic supply of some logistics and shortage of some critical staff, broken down motorbikes and vehicles, the Municipality was able to work in all the service delivery areas during 2023. Some of the service areas were maternal and child Health Services, Disease Surveillance and Response, Clinical and Specialist Services, Nutritional Services, Reproductive and Adolescent Health Services, Administrative and Transport, Mental Health, Mortuary Services, Port Health, Financial services and Health Promotion.

Ketu South Municipality was one of the districts in Ghana that were affected by severe floods which was very devastating in the year 2024. The floods destroyed properties and displaced several people in the municipality rendering them homeless. The worst affected sub-municipalities were Aflao wego, Klikor, Some Fugo and Some woge. The following communities were hard-hit with flood which created rife environmental conditions for the outbreak of diseases.

Background Information

Ketu South Municipal is one of the 18 Administrative Districts/Municipals in the Volta Region. The Municipal is located in the South-Eastern corridor of Ghana.

Boundaries

The municipality shares boundaries with Republic of Togo in the East, with Ketu North District in the North, and North-west and with Keta Municipal in the South –West and with the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean) in the South.

Relief, Drainage, Climate and Vegetation

Vegetation is of the low grassland changing to shrubs when one moves away from the coastal areas of the Municipality. There are two rainy seasons. The major rainy season is in March to June and the minor season begins in September and ends in November.

Demography

The municipality has (6) six Health demarcated sub-municipalities. The projected population based on the 2021 population and housing census carried out in the country with Ketu South having a population of 263,864. The following are the breakdown of the projected population for the six sub-municipalities.

Table1. Distribution of Population by Sub-Municipals in Ketu South municipalities

Sub Municipal	Population
AFLAO EAST	32938
AFLAO WEST	60144
AFLAO WEGO	42292
KLIKOR	36851
SOME FUGO	50074
SOME WEGO	47093
KETU SOUTH	269392

Table2. Distribution of Population by age Groups in Ketu South Municipal

Population Groups	Total Pop
Children 0 – 11 months (4%)	10,776
Children 12 – 23 months (4%)	10,776
Children 24 – 59 months (12%)	32,327
Children 0 – 59 months (20%)	73,878
WIFA (24%)	64,654
Children 6-59 months (18% of Total Pop)	48,491
Expected Pregnancy (4%)	10,776
Expected Delivery (4%)	10,776