The authorities of the Kintampo Well being Investigate Centre (KHRC) in the Bono East Location and the Ghana Health and fitness Support are finalising arrangements for the procurement of a $30,000 qPCR equipment to help the Centre to perform exams for the coronavirus.
This followed a donation of the $30,000 by a previous Kintampo Municipal Main Govt underneath previous President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration to the KHRC to facilitate the procurement of the device.
Awudulai Razak’s patriotic gesture adopted an attraction by the Ghana Medical Affiliation (GMA) for the improve of the KHRC to help it to test and improve the countrywide tests of suspected cases of the Covid-19.
Dr. Kwaku Poku Asante, the Director of the KHRC instructed the Ghana Information Company (GNA) during a short presentation ceremony at Kintampo that the Centre was liaising with the GHS to purchase and install the machine for it to start out screening within the subsequent two months.
The KHRC, he described had been useful in screening illnesses and vaccines, citing that the centre effectively tested vaccines through the outbreak of Meningitis in the place in 2015.
Dr. Asante thanked the donor, and appealed for additional guidance, stating apart from the machine the centre would also require other logistics as perfectly.
Mr. Kofi Amoakohene, the Bono East Regional Minister declared that the region had recorded its initial verified circumstance of the Covid-19, and advised the people to adhere to social distaining, clean their arms with cleaning soap frequently under operating h2o and use hand sanitizers to guard them selves.
He stated the Regional Coordinating Council and the GHS have scale up precautionary measures to include the unfold of the deadly virus, and urged the masses to also enjoy their component to avoid local community distribute.
Dr. Adomako Boateng, the Bono East Regional Director of health and fitness emphasised that screening remained critical in the struggle versus Covid-19, expressing with KHRC as a screening centre, the troubles of delay in the release of results would be triumph over.
He explained stakeholder collaboration was also a vital to defeating the deadly “unseen enemy virus”, and referred to as for concerted efforts to stem the distribute of the Covid-19.
Dr. Paul Frimpong, the Vice Chairman of the Ghana Clinical Affiliation in the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Areas, expressed gratitude to the donor, and known as on the very well-to-do in society to emulate the patriotic gesture.
Mr. Michael Sarkodie, the Kintampo Municipal Main Government claimed the entire world was less than siege with the human race significantly less than threat, and referred to as for collective method to combat the unfold of the virus in the country.
