News and rumours that the Tema Metropolis has recorded a Coronavirus (COVID-19) positive patient is untrue, Dr Sally Quartey, the Metro Health Director, has said.
She explained that the patient who tested positive to the virus and kept at the Tema General Hospital is not a resident of the Harbour City.
“But, you know, because he was kept at the facility’s Isolation Center, then, most people captured it as a recorded case from Tema…No,” Dr Quartey explained to a set of multiple questions a section of the media posed to her at a maiden COVID-19 media encounter with the Public Health Emergency Committee of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA).
Contact tracing for the COVID-19 persons, from the onset, was conducted by the highest authority, nonetheless, since it was decentralised, Dr Quartey said the Tema Metro had, so far, traced 46 suspected persons.
“Forty-three of the contacts we traced tested negative. The other three are being observed,” she added.
She said her team of personnel was still tracing more contacts and updating its records.
The records have remained stable, saying it had remained at 46 for days now.
On the issue Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Dr Sally Quartey sighed and said: “We will appeal for PPEs because we are in dire need of them.”
On his part, Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La, Tema Metro Chief Executive, said all CHPS compounds in the area would, in the meantime, be used as holding bays for Coronavirus suspects.
He seized the day to launch an appeal to corporate bodies and individuals in the metropolis to support the assembly in cash or materials to provide for the urban poor who are unable to work to fend for themselves and their families as a result of the lockdown in Tema.
By Inusa Musah / www.thechronicle.com.gh
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