Reports indicate that seven health workers at the Kwesimintim hospital, in Western Region, have tested positive for Covid-19.
Felix Kesse, the hospital administrator, who confirmed this to journalists, said the victims are currently being managed and monitored in isolation and may resume work next week.
He said the authorities had embarked on vigorous contact tracing to ensure that any patient or visitor who might have come into contact with the seven are also isolated.
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According to him, the condition or absence of the seven has not adversely affected operations of the hospital, adding that the facility still runs twenty-four hour service a week.
The administrator described as unfortunate news circulating in the oil city that majority of the staff at Kwesimintim hospital had tested positive for coronavirus.
He said seven out of the total 546 workers at the facility cannot logically be termed majority.
Mr Kesse said the situation at the hospital is not peculiar because almost all public health facilities in the country have some of their staff testing positive.
“Go speak to authorities at Takoradi and Esikado hospitals as well as Effia-Nkwanta and you will see that Covid-19 infection amongst health workers is no news,” he added.
He said the good news, however, is that apart from the seven, there is no single Covid-19 patient currently on admission at Kwesimintim.
He explained that only 36 out of the 150 samples tested as at Monday February 1 were positive but not severe to admit the patients.
In response to rumours of shortage of PPEs at the hospital, Mr Kesse said there are still some of last year’s stock supplied by the government and that the authorities will not hesitate requesting more when needed.
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