Ghanaian medical doctors are asking the government to provide insurance cover and risk allowance for medical staff in the face of dreadful Ebola virus alert in the country.Speaking to the state radio in Accra on Thursday, President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) Dr Opoku Edusei said although government had put in place measures to avert the possible outbreak of the pandemic, much has not been done to protect health workers against the alert.
GMA is not holding the country to ransom but we are asking for protection for our members in the face of the Ebola virus scareâ€, Dr Edusei told the state radio. He added that there were not enough equipment especially protective covers for the health workers in case the unfortunate happened.
This has become necessary following reported death of doctors on the frontline of the battle against the world’s worst ever outbreak.
In the face of the Ebola threat, government has put in place various committees to monitor the situation in all the 10 regions as a way of preventing possible outbreak of the disease which had reportedly killed 932 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
All suspected cases reported in Ghana proved negative howoever people have refrained from eating bush meat because of education campaign that bush meat might be carrying Ebola virus. News bulleting of most radio and television stations are dominated by the Ebola outbreak in the West African sub-region.
Source : APA
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