Acting Director of Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, Dr Joseph Oliver-Commey has cautioned Ghanaians to prevent themselves from contracting COVID-19.
The Ga East Municipal Hospital has disclosed that the facility lacks adequate nurses needed to take care of the increasing number of Covid-19 patients at the facility. The Hospital is also in need of oxygen for the patients at the Hospital’s Infectious Disease Centre’s Intensive Care Unit.
The number of active Covid-19 cases in the country has catapulted to 2,314 in the past two weeks as Ghanaians have let their guard down on the safety protocols.
Dr Joseph Oliver-Commey said the ICU designated for COVID patients is full to capacity while the ward for critical cases can not take on new cases.
Dr Oliver-Commey noted, “the only reason why you can take patients into your ICU is when you have oxygen and adequate staff to handle them.”
“At the moment we are constrained by lack of oxygen and it is not only the infectious disease centre, almost all the ICU centres are constrained by oxygen including the use of high flow oxygen, very expensive that patients cannot afford.”