Ghana on top of a group of countries<\/strong><\/span><\/a> likely to record an Ebola outbreak before the end of October 2014.<\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”p8vc7kC9UTRmdCIzgJULn7p7bsFB5T02″]Government has however assured Ghanaians that it has instituted robust measures to deal with a possible outbreak.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Tuesday, Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Victor Bampoe said \u201cwhen it comes to getting ready for incident management, the Tema treatment center is up and running, there is still some few modifications that we are continuing to do that will make it even better.\u201d<\/p>\nBut the General Secretary of the GMA, Dr. Frank Serebour insists government must do more.<\/p>\n
“Let me say that even as doctors,we feel that the training is inadequate. If you look at Ebola, it is not just doctors, every health worker is at risk. And indeed every Ghanaian is at risk. So in terms of training, I don\u2019t think it is adequate.\u00a0 And we also don\u2019t feel that we have enough protection. As you are aware, it is recently that the Chief of Staff was talking about even doing some kind of insurance for front line staff,” he said.<\/p>\n
According to Frank Serebour, the current stock of Personal Protective Equipment\u00a0(PPEs)\u00a0in the country is also not enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are 9000 PPEs in the system , every single district should should at least have some. So 9000 PPEs are woefully inadequate. We are not saying they should come and stock PPEs here, but what we are saying is that the channels for providing them should be open so in case we need them, it can easily be made available. And of course the fact that we haven\u2019t completed the treatment centres in Kumasi and Tamale is problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ebola has killed over 4000 in the worst affected countries in West Africa \u2013 the countries hit by the disease are Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Nigeria.<\/p>\n
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By: Nana Ama A. Asante\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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