The Ghana Well being Company has asked all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Central Region to as a matter of protocol have interaction communities they intend setting isolation centres in.
The assistance from the Ghana wellness assistance follows waves of protest in more than 10 communities wherever District Assemblies have planned to established up isolation centres.
At a press briefing, the Regional Director of Overall health Services, Dr Akosua Owusu Sarpong tasked the MMDCEs to assure the group people that such an workout does not endanger their lives but rather shield them in opposition to the Covid-19.
She observed that the constant protests of citizens are conter-effective to the struggle versus the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I will even more plead with the MMDCEs to do extra engagement of their many communities and their management and convey to them that we want their protection.
“Because whatever intervention we are placing right here as a location is for the protection of anyone.
“And explain the challenge to them so that they can aid the troubles of Covid-19,” she mentioned.
Dr Owusu Sarpong exposed that the increase surveillance make contact with tracing in the region has discovered above 550 folks who came into the state before the closure of the Ghanaian boarders.
She extra that presently, the region has quarantined 273 folks with 84 of them remaining fishermen who returned from their sojourn from neighboring nations around the world days back.
The Central Location Minister, Kwamena Duncan, on his part tasked the MMDCEs to be certain that the President’s directive of cost-free drinking water is strictly adhered to.
He further more appealed to the media to aid the attempts of governing administration to fight the pandemic nationally.
