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President Nana Akufo-Addo, has expressed his satisfaction with measures the government has put in place to deal with the threat of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
He said this when he paid visits to the Kotoka International Airport ( KIA), the Tema General Hospital and the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Wednesday.
Accompanied by the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman- Manu, the President’s first port of call was the arrivals at the KIA terminal.
It was revealed by the Health Minister that several stakeholder engagements with the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL), Ghana Immigration Service, Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority, at all the country’s ports of entry, have been put in place to strengthen Ghana’s COVID-19 preparedness and surveillance.
The Managing Director of the GACL, Yaw Kwakwa, told President Akufo-Addo that, on arrival at the airport, all passengers are screened using thermal scanning devices at the airport, and passengers are also required to fill a health declaration form.
Additionally, the GACL boss indicated that point of entry staff at the airport have been sensitised on case detection and infection prevention and control, together with the creation of a holding room at the airport which is to be utilised to hold suspected COVID-19 cases.
At the Tema General Hospital, one of the hospitals designated as a treatment /isolation centre for the COVID-19 disease, the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Richard Anthony, told President Akufo-Addo that the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Hospital is “readily prepared for the COVID-19. We have an emergency response team made up of nurses, pharmacists, administrators on standby”.
The President was taken on a tour of the cleanroom encompassing a changing area for the nurses, as well as the main ward, which did not have any patients as at the time of the visit.
“We have not had any suspected or cases tested in Tema General,” he added.
At the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, another hospital designated as a treatment /isolation centre for the COVID-19 disease, President Akufo-Addo was told that the infectious diseases centre of the hospital “is a full unit, purposely-built and well-designed to hold and quarantine an infectious case.”
The President was made aware of the fact that the emergency response team at the hospital has been activated, with basic medical checks undertaken on every patient who visits the hospital.
“If there is any positive indication of the contraction of a disease, we keep you and we make arrangement for the patient to be transported to this centre. We conduct a test, which involves taking samples and sending it to Noguchi.
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