About 11 nurses have contracted covid-19 in the Upper East Region in the first half of February,2021, bringing the total number of health workers who have contracted the virus to about 100 cases since the out break of the disease in March 2019.
Most of these health workers contracted the virus in the later half of December,2020 and the early part of 2021.
Between December 2020 and January 2021, most of these affect nurses who work at the Bolgatanga regional hospital contracted the virus after mistaking a covid-19 patient for a malaria patient.
In an interview with the upper East Regional chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives council, Mr. Lambon Anthony, on the Word Community Watch SHOW, he revealed that his outfit as at close of 2020 and the first month of 2021 recorded 89 nurses with covid-19. He added that 11 new cases have since been recorded in the first half of February,2021
“the last time I spoke with you, the number was 52 but from December to 6th January 2021, the number increased to 89 with many treated and discharged.”
“After submitting the 89 to my headquarters, 11 more nurse have contracted covid-19 this February bringing the total number so far to about 100.”
Mr. Thomas Lambon also revealed that two nurses who got infected, treated and discharged have been re-infected with the virus and have since been re-treated and discharged.
“ so far two nurses have re-contracted the virus after they got infected, was treated and discharged but have recontracted the virus and have so far been discharged”
One nurse from the war memorial hospital in the Kasena Nankana municipality was infected with the virus and dead as a result .
The Upper East Region is one of the regions with growing numbers of covid-19 cases in the country.
By: Simon Agana/mywordfmonline.com