Children with underlying health conditions are prone to suffer covid-19 and suffer critical cases including death, based on antecedent events around the world Professor Sampson Antwi has said.
According to Professor Sampson Antwi, the Head of Child Health Directorate at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), children are now contracting the Covid-19 and succumning to it due to some underlying conditions.
A common disease among children which is more likely to weaken their system and intensify their condition, despite facts that children generally hardly suffer such severe cases, is Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C).
Professor Antwi, speaking on Angel FM’s Anopa Bofo? show, noted that children who have had the MIS-C have succumed to the virus though not all. According to him, a boy diagnosed of same MIS-C condition contracted the virus but survived at their health facility.
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,.