HOW SAVE IS THE TEST KITS AND PPES BEING DONATING TO HOSPITALS…APC Chairman Queries GMA The Ashanti Regional Chairman for All Progress Congress (APC), Dr. Kasim Ahmed Sisago has called on the Ghana Medical Association to adopt strategic road map to combat the coronavirus in the country. He raised strenuous concerns about the various donations of medical suppliers, test kits, PPES hand sanitizers to hospitals and institutions by individuals of whether efficiently testing is conducted on them or not. If not, then we are likely to bring strangers into our bed rooms.
As the world constantly searching for remedy to curb the covid-19, we must as a matter of urgency not to take advantage of the unavailability of logistics and open up for the unseen spread of the covid-19 to take us by surprise. We need to be more strategic in our efforts to fight the virus and commit to test every donations coming from individuals and organisations.
According to WHO, the only remedy for now is routine testing and using of nose masks and hand sanitizers and must continually comply with that strict guidelines. Dr. Kasim Ahmed reiterated that, if we adamantly receiving donations without realizing the tricky ways of the virus, by offering our best to control it spread, we will have ourselves to be blamed. We cannot sit back and presume sincerely that all donations are safe; we have to beat the grass to startle the snakes.
The Ghana Medical Association should come out with clear cut methodologies in their expeditions to combat the virus. Government and the Medical Directory have not shown any coherent that they want to enrich the populace with an in depth information about the coronavirus…many communities even including the populated regions are still struggling to be well inform about the dangers and chiefly signs of the virus. Government, he said, by now should have deployed the services of Information Services Department to embark on community awareness creations in our local dialect to enhance effective understanding of the novel coronavirus.
That not said, how many community radio stations have been resourced to educate the populace even though, it’s a global pandemic, but some radio stations are not financially sound to continue allocating their airtime purposely for 24/7 coronavirus education.
As we all crack hard to curb the virus, government, even individuals can donate pick-up vehicles to the MMDCEs for them to mount mega horns to create public awareness in the communities to help save the spread of the virus. ‘’we should note that the routine surveillance cases are on the increase than the mandatory quarantine, cases indicate how serious we should be as a nation’’
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