The Minister of Health, Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah is
on his way to the Elubo border in the Western Region to monitor and assess
measures being put in place to screen persons entering the country for the
Ebola disease. The Minister is accompanied by his deputy, the country
representative for the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Magda
Robalo, and the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The Acting
Director of Public Health and some officials of the Health Ministry also
accompanied the minister on this trip.The Public Relations Officer of the
Health Ministry, Tony Goodman told Citi News, Dr. Agyeman-Mensah is visiting
the various entry points into Ghana to ensure all emergency measures are put in
place as ordered. From the Elubo border, the Minister will visit Komenda in the
Central Region because of reports that a resident who had come to Ghana from
Liberia had died from the disease. He stated that the sector Minister visited
the Kotoka International Airport in Accra to “see some areas for quarantine and
treatment centers, the preparedness of the health personnel to care of those
challenges that we are expecting.” Mr. Goodman mentioned that it is imperative
for the Health Minister to touch base with persons and institutions setting up
the various emergency centers across the country. He indicated that Ebola
treatment centers were being established across the country, specifically in
Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, to cater for the southern, middle and the northern
zones of Ghana.
Source: Citi
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