The Western Regional Director of Health, Dr. Jacob Mahama has revealed that, six Senior High Schools and one nursing training college in the Western Region have recorded a total of 56 COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Mahama said, out of the 309 samples collected from the seven institutions in the Region with the Asangragwa Nursing and Midwifery Training School Inclusive, 56 of the samples came out positive whilst results of the remaining 139 are yet to be received.
“As at now, we have 309 samples take from six Senior High Schools and the Asankragwa Nursing and Midwifery Training School. They have positive cases that amount to 56 positive cases. 149 are negatives and 139 are still pending. The school with the largest positives is Nsei SHS which has 26 positives out of 78 samples taken there. Archbishop Porter Girls has 2 positives, Adiembra (2), St. John’s (1), Ahantaman (1), Shama SHS (18) and Asankragwa Nursing and Midwifery Training School (6). What we did was that we picked the contacts and samples to the laboratory. We are yet to hear anything about disinfection of these schools,“ he revealed.
Reacting to the allegations that some of the samples had gone waste because of inadequate storage ability, Mr. Mahama refuted the claims saying his attention had not been drawn to any of such and that even if it was true, that could only happen in the metropolis not in the districts.
“I’m not aware of samples that have gone bad. Not in our labs, maybe in the districts. As long as they are in the refrigerator, it cannot go bad or expire. All that we know is that our fridges are full. What they do now is that they send some of the samples to KCCR or Accra. For instance, the samples we are taking from the SHS are sent straight to Accra for test. If we get the reagents and more staff, they can reduce the 4,000 backlog to an appreciable minimum within 10 days,” the Western Regional Health Director explained.
Source: GHANAFEED.COM