The government has so far distributed the following to healthcare facilities across the country: four million, two hundred and forty thousand, and seven hundred and nineteen (4,240,719) gloves; two million, five hundred and seventy-six thousand, three hundred and thirty-three (2,576,333) nose masks.
Also, sixty thousand, eight hundred and twenty-three (60,823) goggles; sixty thousand, one hundred and thirty-two (60,132) liters of sanitizers; fifty thousand, seven hundred and seventy (50,770) head covers; forty one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-two (41,992) gowns; forty-one thousand (41,000) medical scrubs; and thirty thousand, seven hundred and eighty-three (30,783) N-95 face masks.
President Akufo-Addo announced this in his 9th address on measures taken to combat the spread of the pandemic.
He said “Further, we have extended this gesture to other frontline actors engaged in the fight, with the presentation of five thousand (5,000) PPEs to members of the media, and tomorrow, Monday, 11th May, ten thousand domestically-produced face masks and more money will be delivered to the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), to enhance its capacity to undertake the important work it is already doing. Let me, once again, thank the healthcare workers, including all those responsible for the tracing, testing and treating, for their heroic contribution to the fight against the pandemic. They will be long remembered in our history. In advance, I say a hearty ayekoo to the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, which celebrates its sixtieth (60th) anniversary on Tuesday.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
