COVID-19 kills three kids at KATH
Prof. Sampson Antwi, Head of Child Health Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, has confirmed that three children have so far been killed by the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus since its outbreak in the country last year.
According to the Medical Officer, the Directorate recorded 14 cases last year, but stressed that nine new cases had been recorded in the first few weeks of 2021, bringing the total cases of the children infected by the COVID-19 to 24 at the facility.
Talking on OTEC FM’s Nyansapo morning show yesterday, Prof. Antwi expressed the fear that the situation could escalate if the current situation was not brought under total control.
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The Head of Child Health at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Prof. Sampson Antwi, has warned the public and nursing mothers in particular, to be extra careful and observe the COVID-19 safety protocols to prevent their children from getting infected.
He said the children’s treatment centre at the hospital was currently full to capacity and holding centres had also now been turned into treatment centres due to the upsurge in COVID-19 cases.
Prof. Antwi said as of Tuesday, January 26, the Child Health Directorate had recorded nine positive cases of COVID-19 with one of them succumbing to the disease.
Professor Sampson Antwi, Head of Child Health Directorate at KATH disclosed that all nine cases were recorded in the last eleven days.
He said 14 children tested positive to COVID-19 at KATH in 2020 with the youngest child being 3 -year-old.
Professor Antwi noted that Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) is not a challenge but they lack enough space to accommodate more children if they record more cases.
In an interview on Accra-baed Joy FM, he said We are having a huge surge in COVID positive cases and the disease initially, children were said to be spared. We had 14 the whole of last year but this year, just the spate of 10-days, we got 9 positive cases,.
Nana Addo said: The lessons drawn from reopening of some sections of our educational institutions in the course of last year have put us in a much better position to oversee successfully the full reopening of our schools. Our children must go to school, albeit safely and we are satisfied that in the current circumstances, the reopening of our schools is safe.
Schools across the country were finally re-opened from January 9 for tertiary students and January 15 for senior and junior high school students as well as pupils in the lower classes.
But the recent surge in COVID-19 cases across the country have called the prudence of this decision by the government into question.
Coronavirus: 25 children contracted COVID-19, three die at KATH LISTEN
JAN 28, 2021
The Child Health Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has recorded 25 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Fourteen (14) of the cases resulting in two deaths were recorded last year, while the beginning of this year had also seen nine confirmed cases and one death, according to the authorities.
Professor Sampson Antwi, Head of the Directorate, briefing the media in Kumasi, said the latest confirmed cases involved an 11-day old baby.
He said three of the cases recorded in January, this year, had already been treated and the children discharged, while the rest were being dealt with.