Dr. Oheneba Owusu Danso, Main Govt Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Educating Clinic (KATH)
Ghana’s second-major health and fitness referral facility, Komfo Anokye Educating Clinic (KATH), has completed the setting up of a Covid-19 (coronavirus) disease tests laboratory.
This follows more than a few weeks of preparation with all the vital bodily infrastructure, devices and consumables, as nicely as good test operates validated by the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Exploration (KCCR).
The enhancement is anticipated to enable facilitate and attain very same-day delivery of Covid-19 test outcomes of scenarios introduced at the Medical center, and people to be acquired from other facilities.
“I am content to announce that Management has facilitated the Laboratory Solutions Directorate to comprehensive the placing up of a unique laboratory for resilient administration in opposition to the pandemic,” Dr. Oheneba Owusu Danso, Main Govt Officer (CEO) of the Healthcare facility, disclosed.
This was on the sidelines of a ground-breaking ceremony in Kumasi, to reactivate will work on the Hospital’s 44-yr-old deserted maternity and children’s block.
President Akufo-Addo, and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, had been on hand to grace the event.
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) gathered that complete functions of the distinctive laboratory would start on Monday, May possibly 18, this 12 months.
Dr. Danso explained the laboratory had come at the proper time as it would relieve some workload on the KCCR, the only scientific facility in the northern sector of the nation, hitherto, mandated to have out test on and validate suspected Covid-19 circumstances.
As of Saturday, May possibly 16, Ghana experienced recorded 5,638 verified situations, with 1,460 recoveries and 28 deaths, in accordance to the most up-to-date report posted on the Ghana Wellbeing Service’s Covid-19 portal.
The count of circumstances per location place the Greater Accra on prime with 4,248 verified conditions, Ashanti Location recording 798 scenarios, and Central and Eastern Areas recording 210 and 99 cases, respectively.
