The Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) is calling for benefits offered to all frontline workers against COVID-19 in the country as all health workers are at a risk of acquiring the virus.
President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo in a Citi News interview seem impressed about the packages made available to all frontline health workers but added that all health workers in the country are being exposed to the danger of acquiring the virus and so these benefits should be made available to all of them.
“The initiative is good and we are grateful. But it goes beyond these people. Every nurse or midwife everywhere is exposed. Even to the basic unit which is the CHPS compound, everyone is exposed. So, for the stimulus packages that were announced, we are thankful for the tax waivers which we believe will cover all of us. But the bit of allowances is what we wish should cover every one of us because we are all exposed in doing our bits in helping the nation identify to contain and manage [the virus]. We are also grateful for the availability of buses. As a union, we are also helping to assist in this direction.”
The President in his speech on 5th April, 2020 have stated that PPE’s would be made available to health workers to enable them work effectively.
“That is why the Government is placing a high priority on the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPEs) for them. Thus far, three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) masks, five hundred and fifty-eight thousand, six hundred and fifty (558,650) examination gloves, one thousand (1,000) reusable goggles, twenty thousand (20,000) cover-all, seven thousand (7,000) N-95 respirators, five hundred (500) waterproof gumboots, two thousand (2,000) reusable face shields, two thousand (2,000) gallons of hand sanitizers, ten thousand (10,000) 100ml pieces of hand sanitizers, and five hundred (500) shoe covers have been sent to the regional health directorates, for onward distribution to the district health directorates for use by our health workers in all the districts.”
Meanwhile doctors at the Department of Accident and Emergency at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have threatened to stop work due to lack of COVID-19 preparedness by the hospital
“We write to express our general dissatisfaction with the preparedness or lack thereof of the department to combat the current COVID-19 pandemic. We also wish to express our displeasure with the events surrounding the hospital’s first confirmed case,” a memo the doctors sent to their Head of Department stated.
Two health workers have been tested COVID-19 positive
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