News:
July 14, 2021
The Ranking Member on the health committee and MP for Juaboso, Kwabena Minta Akandoh has said, President Akufo-Addo’s government and the health ministry has not been serious with Ghanaians with respect to COVID-19 pandemic when it comes to issues of testing and vaccine.
He explained that, there a number of people who are being affected with the disease and increasing too fast in recent times, but government has left Ghanaians to their fate without taking the appropriate measures in addressing the challenge.
At a media briefing on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 he indicated that, Government promised to vaccinate 20 million Ghanaians against the disease at the end of the year 2021 but only about One million people have so far been vaccinated, even though, we are in the seventh month of the year.
The ranking member further said, Government announced to Ghanaian that, all citizens can walk to any public health center for COVID-19 testing for free but that has not been the case when one visits these centers unless a referred case.
He concluded that, some health facilities charge between Ghc 300 and Ghc600 for COVID-19 test which is way too expensive.
He said the government must quickly move to address what appears to be the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic with increased vaccination, contact tracing and regular updates to keep the citizenry abreast of new developments with regard to the virus.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com