Another govt formal, the Chief Government Officer of the Nationwide Well being Insurance plan Authority (NHIA) has examined constructive for Covid-19.
Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby who has absent into self-isolation mentioned she got to know her standing this Sunday.
According to her, speak to tracing has started right away she received to know of her status. So considerably, she explained all those examined have analyzed unfavorable.
The NHIA CEO stated she right away contacted doctors at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and other folks for guidance and she has been place medication.
Resources explained to Pleasure Information the employees of the Authority have been produced aware of Dr Dsane-Selby’s standing and those near to her have long gone for a exam.
The former Healthcare Officer at Korle-Bu Teaching Clinic, Achimota Hospital and in the Uk mentioned she considering where by she will work and the range of people today who stream by way of her office, it is not surprising she caught the virus.
In accordance to her, she has been adhering to all the WHO protocols but believes maybe doing the job at the NHIA uncovered her to the virus.
That notwithstanding, she recommended the common community not to permit their guard down but take the use of hand sanitisers and encounter mask when they are heading out as properly as regular hand washing seriously.
Dr Dsane-Selby stated encouraged the standard community to display like and compassion to individuals who have contracted the virus and not stigmatise them.
The NHIA manager stated just like any illness persons get unwell, they get addressed and go on with their everyday living so Covid-19 is just a further combat people today get.
The NHIA boss is the fourth authorities official to check constructive for the novel coronavirus disorder.
The Higher Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu Ankomah was taken into an ICU on April 10, in the United kingdom soon after he analyzed positive for the virus.
On Saturday, information broke that the Health Minister is recuperating at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) following tests good for the coronavirus illness.
The Mayor of Sekondi-Takoradi, Anthony Kobina Kurentsi Sam has also died, a couple of weeks immediately after his personalized driver tested beneficial for Covid-19.
