A Virologist at the Kumasi Centre of Collaborative Investigate (KCCR) into Tropical Medicine, Dr Michael Owusu, suggests dread, stigma and stress and anxiety are causes individuals identified with Covid-19, are managing away from being isolated.
Talking on Joy FM’s Major Story on Friday, the Senior Lecturer at the Section of Medical Diagnostics, KNUST, indicated that in some situations, the patients believe the ailments at the isolation centre are not protected plenty of.
Therefore, he encouraged that individuals need to be psychologically educated to understand the significance of isolating themselves from other individuals.
“We need to do a lot of psychological perform on these persons so that they appreciate who they are and take pleasure in the point that, they are likely to endanger lives by their actions, then they will corporate with the officials,” he said.
This comes right after reports that a 46-year-aged Nigerian, Simon Okafor, who has tested optimistic for coronavirus in the Higher West area reportedly absconded from the facility but was arrested and sent to the isolation Centre at the Higher West Regional Clinic.
According to the Regional Health Directorate, absence of place at isolation centres was the primary reason the Wellbeing Support requested the Covid-19 individual to self-quarantine which he subsequently escaped.
But Dr Owusu was of the look at that self-isolation and self-quarantine are initiatives that cannot be applicable in Ghana, notably in the remote parts of the place.
He noticed that when the Globe Wellbeing Organisation (WHO) announced coronavirus as a pandemic, folks who travelled to the state did not adhere to government’s directive of self-isolation.
“It will take an individual who is extremely disciplined to self –isolate. So quite a few people had been unable to go through this course of action.”
He then advised that specialised facilities must be obtained by government to isolate individuals who have tested constructive or suspected scenarios.
Stressing on the worth of know-how to the fight towards coronavirus, the KNUST lecturer stated that cell tracker could be used to keep track of and locate people today who have analyzed constructive for coronavirus.
He spelled out the technological know-how could demarcate zones for patients as a result, need to anybody split out of the specified zone the procedure is alerted.
“The extra you have this quantity of folks, the more hard you would be able to keep keep track of of them so the earlier we undertake this signifies the improved for us.”
