The Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah has donated GH₵20,000 and quantities of alcohol-based hand sanitizers to the New Juaben South Municipal Health Directorate to preparation to combat Covid-19.
The Campaign Manager of the Lawmaker, Michael Oteng Adu who donated on his behalf on Monday, March 30, 2020, told mybrytfmonline.com that the donation is to ensure that the Health Directorate prepares adequately for any eventuality amid the outbreak of Coronavirus in Ghana through Eastern Regional Capital- Koforidua has not recorded any positive case.
He said the MP is still mobilizing more resources to support the Health directorate to boost the delivery of quality healthcare to the constituents.
The Municipal Health Director, Dr. Edmund Ekow Kaitoo said Health facilities in the municipality are “locked down” by lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs} and other logistics required to combat Coronavirus disease.
“We are also lockdown in terms of logistics so anyone who brings as logistics we are most grateful. We are having a series of meetings but one of our biggest challenges is lack of logistics that we don’t have. Common PPEs –face masks, gloves, basic ones we need to have we don’t have them because we don’t have money to buy them. But we have been promised to be given some next week.”
He, therefore, commended Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah for the timely intervention.
Twenty-three (23) out of 24 samples of clinically suspected cases of Covid-19 in the Eastern Region have tested negative, according to the Eastern Regional Directorate of Ghana Health Service’s latest update on March 29, 2020.
The number is out of a total of 27 clinically suspected cases recorded in the region.
Meanwhile, four (4) contacts have been traced out of which three (3) samples collected yet to be tested, the other has returned to Accra.
The latest clinically suspected case has recorded at St. Joseph Hospital in Koforidua. The sample has been sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medicine Research for testing on Monday, March 30, 2020.
Nationally, Ghana has recorded 152 confirmed cases including five fatalities. As a result, the National capital –Accra, and Parts of Greater Kumasi have been lockdown by the President for two weeks which started today March 30, 2020.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
