A former medical director of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge), Dr Thomas Winsum Anabah, is accusing the government of massaging COVID-19 figures, alleging the caseload is over 40,000.
According to the Ghana Health Service, as at Tuesday, July 21, 2020 the country has recorded 559 new Coronavirus infections pushing the case count to 28,989 while the death toll stands at 153.
However, in a write-up, Dr. Anabah, who is currently the executive director of the African Center for Health Policy Research and Analysis (ACH- PRA), said: “It would not be wrong for one to conclude that the apparent decline we see in the COVID 19 active cases is deliberately engineered by the state to cover up for its own mismanagement of the pandemic and avoid being blamed for allowing the voters registration and reopening of school to add more injuries to the pandemic.
“Inasmuch we are unable to calculate the exact positivity rate of COVID 19 in Ghana, we can still use the reason assigned to the abandoning of the pooling method for testing samples to calculate the possible number of samples that would have turned positive out of the 26,000 backlogged samples. Going by the minimum number, if for every 10 samples pooled together, 5 test positive to COVID 19, it means 50% of the 26,000, that is a hooping 13,000 positive new case have been missed by our laboratories. If you add this figure to the existing 28,989 positive cases, Ghana should be talking of 41,989 positive cases.”
Source: GhanaFeed.Com
