John Dumelo has suggested that the government should get more testing kits for the covid-19 and increase the capacity of facilities doing the testing.
As of yesterday, the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ghana is at 204, deaths are at 5 and 3 recoveries.
As the cases increase, two other facilities have been added to the initial hospital in charge of the testing.
The medical facilities in charge of this testing includes Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine.
However in a memo yesterday, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital threatened to withdraw their services if a number of things including the provision of personal protective equipments, testing of all staff in the department, a proper isolation unit for patients among other things are not met.
According to John Dumelo in a tweet, “Cases are Increasing in bits because our testing capacity is small.”
He added that increasing the testing capacity will reveal “more cases than being reported.”
The gov shld as a matter of urgency get more test kits and Increase d capacity of facilities doing d actual testing. Cases are Increasing in bits because our testing capacity is small. Increase d testing capacity & u will realize we actually have more cases than being reported.
— Farmer John (@johndumelo) April 3, 2020
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By: Hajia Lamy Gates |ghanaweekend.com
