The world is plagued with a raging deadly pandemic, the novel Coronavirus which is fast spreading like a wildfire and claiming lives in a proportion ever witnessed, this has left many countries on their knees and grappling for a solution.

In order to minimize the spread of this virus in Ghana, the president, Nana Akufo Addo announced some measures to that effect.

In the wake of this, the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology under its hardworking Minister, Professor Frimpong Boateng, has instituted some enhanced preventive measures to ensure the safety of the staff

Being a medical professional himself, Professor Frimpong Boateng educated the staff on the need to adhere strictly to personal hygiene as well as measures put in place by the Ministry

He further stated the need to use hand sanitizers frequently as well as washing once hands with running water before and after using washrooms

The safety and health preventive measures instituted by the Minister includes provision of hand gloves for the security personnel at the entrance, checking of temperature of everybody who enters the building, Veronica bucket mounted at various points for easy access to wash once hands, sanitizers mounted on the walls on all the floors amongst other things

The Minister assured that with these measures and its strict adherrance, the staff of the Ministry would be working under very safe conditions without any fear.

Interestingly and not so surprising, our checks indicated that the instrument being used to checking temperature was provided by Professor Frimpong Boateng without a charge

Such a show of patriotism is what is required from all in times like this