Covid-19: Gov’t Agrees With Stakeholders On Standard Definition For Frontline Health Workers

Months since the influx of the novel Coronavirus in the country, government has finally been able to come to agreement with stakeholders on a standard definition for who a frontline health worker is.

Addressing Parliament, Deputy Health Minister Bernard Okoe Boye said, “Mr Speaker, the Ministry of Health and all relevant stakeholders have sat and settled on who qualifies as a frontline worker.”

He added, “the definition for frontline workers, as agreed on with all relevant stakeholders is any health worker, who has been involved in the management of a confirmed case of COVID-19.”

Okoe Boye further explained that frontline health workers numbers stand around 6000 which he insisted is dynamic depending on the number of confirmed cases and the people involved in treatment.

“Any health worker that is determined as having managed a COVID-19 case, but not being in the current list would be evaluated and captured if in the reviewed list,” he noted.

He added, “the list is a dynamic one that changes with a current situation. The commitment to health workers by the Akufo-Addo government remains unadulterated, firm in its creation and on efforts to overcome this pandemic.”

Source: GhanaFeed.com