There have been reports of erectile dysfunction as among the side effects of COVID-19.
According to the Vice President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Frank Serebour, doctors have received complaints of erectile dysfunction after men recover from the virus.
Dr Bernard Toboh, a Consulting Urologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, says the claim that some men, who recovered from Coronavirus infection are experiencing erectile dysfunction is real.
One gentleman who spoke on condition of anonymity in an interview on
Neat FM spoke about his condition and how he got infected.
Listen to him in the video below
The National Ambulance Service (NAS) has assured its personnel that the necessary security measures are being put in place to guarantee their safety across the country.
The measures, it said, included getting police escorts for ambulances providing emergency services in the night across the country.
“(Operating) during the day is not as risky as during the night, so we have appealed to the sector minister to take it up with the Minister of the Interior so that they can engage the Inspector General of Police to see the security that they can provide, especially for the night emergencies,” the Chief Executive Officer of the NAS, Professor Ahmed Zakaria, told the Daily Graphic last Wednesday.
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The Oxford Vaccine for COVID-19 raises the question: “How does this prospective treatment provide efficient protection right now for frontline health workers, many of whom are dying despite the stringent protective measures?”
Answer: It doesn’t. We need something immediately to stop deaths. A simple Ghanaian initiative that is cheap, safe and efficient is in danger of being sidelined by certain “dimensions”.
Vaccine dimension
Responding to Rionach McCarron and Sandor Bako, who “.hope that the safety and efficacy of the vaccine can be shown as the trials progress”, Dr Joginder Anand, a former Consultant in Public Health England, asked, “Effective for how long? Two months? Six months?”
An Obuasi-based Non-profit Association, the Fifty 50 Club has made a donation of GHS 10,000 to the family of a 5-year-old boy, Godwin Asare towards the payment of the cost of surgery to be undertaken by the Ghana Cardiothoracic Center.
Information reaching newsmen is that veteran actor, Emmanuel Kojo Dadson, has died. He was 68. He died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on Tuesday, February 9, while undergoing dialysis for kidney issues.
Kojo Dadson, who gained fame for his role in productions such as Home Sweet Home had been recovering from a stroke he suffered in 2012 and which kept him wheelchair-bound for eight years.
His brother, PaJohn Bentsifi Dadson, well known on the arts and entertainment scene said he died exactly two weeks after his beloved wife passed away.
According to PaJohn, his brother suddenly became weak a week ago and was dehydrated. He was admitted at the Ridge Hospital where he was put on drips and they run several tests on him. He said the doctors diagnosed him with kidney issues and recommended dialysis. He went for his first dialysis session on Tuesday at Korle Bu but unfortunately passed on.