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Ghana Infectious Disease Centre was commissioned by Vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia on 24 July 2020. He stated a sum of US$7.5 million was used to launch the centre. [ 5 ] It was established as Ghana's leading national public health institute .
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is a Public Service body established under Act 525 of 1996 as required by the 1992 constitution. [1] It is an autonomous Executive Agency responsible for implementation of national policies under the control of the Ghana Minister for Health through its governing Council - the Ghana Health Service Council.
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]
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]
On 4 June, Ghana's COVID-19 cases increased by 337 which brought the total number of cases to 8,885. This was confirmed by the Ghana Health Service. 57 more people recovered from the disease, which brought the number of recoveries to 3,189. Death toll remained at 38. Ghana's active cases stood at 5,658.
Ian Walker, UK High Commissioner to Ghana suggested ways the COVID-19 vaccine could be of help to the economy of Ghana. [562] Career women in Ghana were charged to take up leadership roles due to the impact of the pandemic. [563] The GHS launched an investigation in an alleged theft of COVID-19 vaccines by three health workers. [564]
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]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first two cases in Ghana were confirmed on 12 March 2020, when two infected people came to Ghana, one from Norway and the other from Turkey .