Director-Standard of the Ghana Wellbeing Service (GHS) has expressed be concerned about the decline in other healthcare providers like immunisation and antenatal treatment amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Patrick Aboagye at a push briefing Tuesday famous that the drop could have really serious repercussions on the wellness of a lot of citizens.
“From the evaluate of our 1st quarter we have had the immunisation of individuals heading down, we have advancement promotion of young children coming down, and antennal care attendants are declining.
“If this goes on, it will have consequential effects on the health results in the end,” he discovered.
He then urged citizens to freely pay a visit to the hospitals for the expert services due to the fact his outfit has ensured protection of men and women who take a look at hospitals.
Addressing issues on the country’s Covid-19 conditions, Dr Aboagye touted that initiatives executed by federal government is yielding superior benefits considering the fact that the country’s an infection and loss of life charge nonetheless remains small.
“The infection charge in this nation remains lower, in comparison to other nations around the world this tells us that the steps that we have place in put and you have also abided to has served as effectively.
“Comparing our dying amount which is at .66% to other nations around the world in the sub-area like Cameroon reporting about 3.4% loss of life amount and Nigeria 2.9% death rate [we are doing well].”
He further more revealed that now none of the 2402 individuals with Covid-19 is in significant issue or below intense treatment.
So significantly, Ghana has recorded so considerably recorded 2,719 instances with 18 fatalities and 294 recoveries.