Ghana forms National/Zonal Ebola response teams

Forty-two Ghanaian health workers who volunteered their services in the fight against the deadly Ebola disease in Sierra Leone and Liberia are meeting in Accra to form National and Zonal Rapid Response case Management teams. 

The workers, who travelled under the West African Health programme some months ago, will become front liners in case management teams in their places of work. 

Some of them helped in managing some of the cases of Ebola, while others handled support work such as laboratory work, public health and the direct management of cases. 

Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Victor Bampoe, who addressed the meeting in Accra, commended the Director of Institutional Care Department, Dr Sam Kaba and the Technical Advisor to the Emergency Operations Centre, Robert Kwame deGraft Agyrako, for their exemplary leadership.

Dr Kaba said the 42 members of the Team are a valuable human resource and have what it takes to become front liners in case Ebola breaks out in the country. 

He said the personnel could be relied on until the rest of the health forces are roped in case numbers increase.

GNA