President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that the government will establish three (3) infectious disease control centers for each of the zones of the country, i.e. Coastal, Middle Belt, and Northern, with the overall objective of setting up a Ghana Centre for Disease Control.
He said the recent, tragic Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) outbreak, with over forty (40) deaths, has reaffirmed the need for ready access to such infectious disease control centers, even though, in our time, nobody should die of the disease.
Nana Akufo-Addo said this during his eighth update on measures to control the Coronavirus in the country.
He said the government is going to beef up existing laboratories and establish new ones across every region for testing.
Nana Akufo-Addo said ” Early reporting is what is required, and I implore everybody to heed this call. We shall make these investments in our healthcare system not because it is going to be easy, but because it is self-evidently necessary to serve the needs of 21st century Ghana. The three (3) Development Authorities, the Zongo Development Fund, and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies will be tasked to place health infrastructure amongst their highest priorities in the coming years.
“Soon, at the appropriate time, the exact volume of investment required will be duly and transparently laid out for public scrutiny and action. 6 It is obvious that side by side with the investment in the physical infrastructure of our public health system, we will have to intensify our policies for the growth of our domestic pharmaceutical industry so that we can generate our medicines and medical supplies and products.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
