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Member of the National Covid-19 Case Management Team, Dr Peter Puplampu says health workers in the country have not rested since the country recorded its first case of the novel coronavirus.
Speaking on
JoyNews’ The Probe Sunday, the Senior Lecturer noted that the virus has caused extreme fatigue on the health system and its workers.
This, according to him, gives room for mistakes to occur for more health workers to contract the disease.
“I keep telling most people that as soon as this episode [pandemic] is over, probably I may have to just go for a sabbatical leave, because since the first case landed, I have not rested a day and that goes for every health worker [in Ghana].
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Public Relations Officer of Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS), Dr Dennis Adu-Gyasi has disclosed that there is pressure on the facilities that are handling larger contact tracing and testing of Covid-19.
According to him, although a number of 15 to16 facilities are having modules that can handle four samples at a time, they cannot subject all to the testing of Covid.
“I can say that about 15 to 16 facilities are using the gene expert for testing but then these gene experts are having models that can handle four samples at a time in addition to Tuberculosis (TB) and for that matter, you can’t have all the modules dedicated to Covid testing,” he said on
Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) says it is prepared to assist in the management of COVID-19 cases following the resumption of schools from their Coronavirus-induced break.