Police officers at the Central Police Station in Koforidua are not happy over how officials of Ghana Health Service are handling information about the results of samples taken from them.
Sources indicate that the furious officers nearly sacked the medical team from the Police station a few days ago but for the intervention of their Commander.
According to the Police Personnel, they have not been communicated to individually clinical evidence about the results of the tests but continue to hear conflicting information about the outcome some published by media houses.
Samples of 244 contacts of Police Officers and their families as well as inmates at the Koforidua Central Police Station and Barracks were taken Sunday, May 31, 2020, after a 55-year-old Senior Police Officer reportedly died from coronavirus Friday, May 29, 2020, at the Eastern Regional Hospital.
The New Juaben Municipal Health Director Dr. Ekow Kwaitoo Confirmed to mybrytfmonline.com Thursday that the samples have tested negative but said the Directorate was awaiting other confirmatory results.
Meanwhile, results of health workers at the Police Clinic and a private Hospital who had contact with the index case have tested negative.
Since news broke about the death of the late Chief Inspector, the public particularly taxi drivers have been stigmatizing against Police personnel and their families at the Barracks.
Taxi drivers in Koforidua refused to pick Police Personnel in uniform while civilian passengers avoided sitting in taxis with them.
Traders reportedly stigmatized against wives of the Police officers who stepped out to buy from the market.
The stigma affected the morale of Police Officers at the Police station forcing them to verbally petition the Regional Police Command about the situation
Coronavirus cases in Koforidua stand at 24 as of June 4, 2020, with one death and one recovery.
Meanwhile, the regional tally has jumped to 162.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
