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| Regional minister (in cap) with Fritz Baffour (m) and other Cittee members |
Members of the
Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior have paid a day’s
working visit to the Aflao border in the Ketu-south Municipality of the Volta
region to assess the security situation and the necessary preparations put in
place to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from entering the country.
The border is the major
transit point to Ghana’s eastern neighbours of Togo, Benin and Nigeria, which
has reported cases of the disease that has plagued three other West African
countries including Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Briefing the Committee members
on the preparations to combat the deadly virus, the Volta Regional Director of
Health Services, Dr. Joseph Teye Nuertey said since news on the outbreak of the
disease broke in April, the Health authorities and other stakeholders has embark on
consistent public education programmes on the disease as well as training of
frontline health officials.
He disclosed that 20
Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) which the region received, were
distributed among the Port Health Department at the border and two hospitals out
of six health facilities designated to deal with the disease. The two are the
Aflao Government hospital and the Regional hospital in Ho, excluding the
Jasikan, Hohoe, Sogakofe, Nkwanta hospitals because of the inadequacy of the
PPEs.
