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DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2020
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No PPE at New Juaben
hospitals to fight Covid-19
BY KOJO ANSAH,
KOFORIDUA
• We are ‘locked down'
• Health Directorate cries out
THE NEW Juaben
South Municipal
Health Directorate
says it is “locked
down” by lack of
Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE) and other logistics required
to combat the Coronavirus
disease.
“We are also locked down in
terms of logistics so if anyone
brings us logistics, we will be
most grateful. We are having series
of meetings but one of our
biggest challenges is lack of logistics
that we need. Common
PPEs –face masks, gloves, basic
ones that we need to have, we
don’t have them because we
don’t have money to buy them,”
the New Juaben South Municipal
Health Director, Dr Edmund
Ekow Kwaitoo, told Starr
News in Koforidua
The situation has been attributed
to months of indebtedness
to the National Health Insurance
Authority, (NHIA), which
has financially handicapped
health institutions in the Eastern
Regional capital.
He, however, said the municipality
had been promised
some quantities of PPEs to be
received next week from Ghana
Health Service- headquarters in
Accra.
The Member of Parliament
(MP) for New Juaben South, Dr
Mark Asibe Yeboah, however,
responded swiftly to this distress
situation on Monday,
March 30, 2020, by issuing a
cheque for GH¢20,000.00 and
donated large quantities of alcohol-based
hand sanitizers to the
Municipal Health Directorate to
help the preparation to contain
the disease should it show up in
the area.
The Campaign Manager of
the Lawmaker, Mr Michael
Oteng Adu, who made the donation
on his behalf, told Starr
News the donation was to ensure
that the Regional Health
Directorate would prepare adequately
for any eventuality of
the outbreak of Covid-19 in the
Eastern Region, which has so
far not recorded a positive case.
He said the MP was still mobilizing
more resources to support
the health directorate.
The Eastern Regional Health
Directorate has said in a statement
issued Tuesday March 31,
2020 by the Regional Health Director,
Dr.Mrs.Alberta
Biritwum
Nyarko, that the region
had mot
recorded any confirmed
case of Covid-19.
“As a region, the number of
clinically suspected cases are 28
as of March 30, 2020. Samples
have been taken from all suspects
and sent to the Noguchi
Memorial Institute for Medical
Research.
"Test results received are 27
and all are negative for Covid-
19 whilst one (1) is still pending,"
the statement said.
It added, "So far, there are
four contacts of confirmed
cases being traced. These are
contacts of confirmed cases in
Accra and they are doing very
well under self-isolation.
"Three of them have so far
tested negative and the other
one returned to Accra."
Meanwhile, some 31 returnees
from Covid-19-stricken
countries who are in the region
have been quarantined.
At the National level, Ghana
had recorded 161 confirmed
cases of coronavirus with five
fatalities as of yesterday, March
31, 2020.
President of Ghana, Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, on
the night of Friday, March 27,
2020, announced partial lockdown
of the nation's capital,
Accra, and surrounding communities
like Tema and Kasoa,
and parts of Ashanti Region as
an enhanced measure to prevent
increasing spread in these suspected
hot spots of the disease,
having already closed the country's
borders -- land, sea and air
space.
The lockdown took effect on
Monday, March 30, 2020.
•Mr Michael Oteng Adu (4th L), Campaign Manager for the MP presenting
the cheque and items to the Health Directorate
• Inset: Some of the items donated