The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has disclosed that the 533 workers of a fish-processing factory in Tema who came in contact with the virus through a colleague are ‘fast’ responding to treatment.
He told NEAT FM in an interview on ‘Ghana Montie’ programme that majority of them have now tested negative for the deadly virus and will soon be discharged.
“If I tell you the number of recoveries in Tema, you will not believe. More than 80% of the factory workers have tested negative now,” he told host Kwesi Aboagye.
Unions call for Covid-19 mass testing in Tema companies
The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) and the Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL) have called for mass Covid-19 testing at industries and companies in Tema to identify and isolate asymptomatic patients.
This, they noted, would prevent the recurrence of mass infection in companies operating in the industrial cum harbour city.
The unions called for the mass testing in an interview with the Ghana News Agency after 533 out of 1,300 workers of a well-known international fish processing company located in the Tema Fishing harbour enclave tested positive to Covid-19.
Background
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a state address on Sunday, May 10 disclosed that “it is important to stress that 533 out of the 921 new cases recorded between last Wednesday and Thursday are factory workers from a fish processing factory located in Tema. All 533 persons were infected by one person”.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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This is good news for all Ghanaians and I must commend the selfless efforts of our front line medical officers and the government for the great work they are doing. If the first post-treatment test on the 533 patients revealed that 80% of them ie 426 have tested negative, then our health workers deserve commendation. It is my prayer that the families of the affected will heave a sigh of relief after the second and final test. Let us also pray with the remaining 107 patients to recover very soon. I will urge the government to set up task teams to monitor the operations of all industries across the country to ensure that they adhere strictly to safety protocols in their work floors and offices.
Does it mean the first tests conducted on them were not done properly or what? What method of testing did they apply to conclude that they were positive? The affected people deserve every right to sue the Covid-19 medical team for the trauma they have made them gone through. Their so-called positive results were added to the positive cases recorded and later added to the list of those recovered. I wonder if the medical team is on top of their profession. This medical team is rather adding to the woes of the society.