Ghana pays compensation for bird flu losses
July 26th, 2007
Around 90 million cedis was paid last Friday to three poultry farmers whose business were destroyed by Ghana health authorities to stop an avian influenza outbreak. One of them, who had 1,500 birds culled, received the highest compensation of around 60 million cedis. The farmers complain of slow reaction on the part of the authorities at the time of the outbreak. A health officer in the area declared the press that the compensation was a fair amount and that the panic around the situation had disappeared once it was brought under control. In total, almost two thousand birds were destroyed on the three farms, and 500 more in May.