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The University of Ghana Medical Centre is a quaternary medical and research centre located on the campus of the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History
This was quickly commercialized to fight against COVID-19. [76] Ghana became the first country to use drone aircraft in the fight against the pandemic through the transport of COVID-19 test samples. [77] [78] [79] From May 2020, Zipline in partnership with the Ministry of health, delivered 2,573 COVID-19 samples to the NMIMR and the KCCR. [80]
GNAT expected mass testing in schools that recorded cases of COVID-19. [280] On 11 July, the Ghana COVID-19 Fund donated food items to two institutions which seemed to be neglected during the pandemic. [281] It was confirmed by the Western Regional Director of Health that five schools in the Western region recorded COVID-19. [282]
The GHS launched an investigation in an alleged theft of COVID-19 vaccines by three health workers. [564] On 21 March, FDA warned against importing COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana illegally. [565] GHS claimed over 460,000 received the vaccine, [566] it also claimed about 90,000 health workers who are outside the COVID-19 epicenters would receive the ...
Use of COVAX vaccines in Ghana. According to the Ghana Health Service, the COVID-19 vaccine would be free of charge for Ghanaians. [14] Dr. Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Director of Public Health at GHS, pregnant women and children below 16 years were exempted from the first phase of the vaccination exercise. [15]
It was built by the government of Japan and donated to the government and people of Ghana in honour of the Japanese researcher Hideyo Noguchi, [6] [7] who researched Yellow fever in Ghana and died from the disease in the country in 1928. [8] Test samples for the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana are performed and confirmed by the institute. [9] [10]
Aboagye said the current government had performed strongly on road infrastructure, health, education and tackling unemployment, however, adding that more than 2.3 million jobs had been created.
The Ashanti Region has 530 health facilities. [2] 170 of these health facilities are operated by the Ghana Health Service; 71 by missions; 281 by private institutions; and 8 by the Ashanti quasi-government. [2] The Ashanti monarchy operates about 32 percent of all health facilities in the Ashanti Region. [1]