Correspondence from Western Region

The Deputy Western Regional Minister, Mrs. Eugenia Gifty Kusi has pledged on behalf of the Central Government to provide the Ellembelle District Health Directorate with Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to fight against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.

The availability of PPE's has become an issue in some health facilities across the country but government is working tirelessly to provide PPE to those health facilities.

The Deputy Minister made the above assurance at Aiyinasi in the Ellembelle District where she joined the Assembly on Monday, April 6, 2020 to disinfect Aiyinasi market and other markets in the area.

The Local Government Ministry together with the Western Regional Coordinating Council (WRCC) on Monday morning, fumigated over 100 markets and other public places in the region in a way to contain the spread of the virus.

The fumigation exercise in Ellembelle, however ended successfully with the support of the security agencies in the District.

In an interview with GhanaWeb's Western Regional Correspondent Daniel Kaku after the exercise, the Deputy Western Regional Minister Mrs. Eugenia Kusi commended the sprayers for dedicating their precious time to disinfect all the fourteen markets in the Ellembelle District.

She reiterated government's readiness to manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) locally and distribute to all health facilities across the country.

She, therefore, assured the good people of Ellembelle that, the District would not be left out.

"... Government is manufacturing PPE, sanitizers and hospital beds to share to all the sixteen Regions in the country, so very soon Western Region will benefit and this area (Ellembelle District) will not be left out, they are going to benefit", she pledged.

Mrs. Eugenia Kusi commended President Akufo-Addo for promising Nurses with an allowance-package to motivate them especially frontline health workers to save the lives of Ghanaians in the wake of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.

"...You heard the President's speech, he has promised to give the Nurses allowances of 50 percent and also increase their salaries for the next three months and in fact our President has done well, the Government thinks about everybody", she said.

She, therefore, encouraged the Nurses to continue with their good works they had started to save the lives of Ghanaians.

"We will encourage the Nurses to continue with the good works they have started to save lives of Ghanaians. May God continue to be with them to save lives", she stated.

She bemoaned how the deadly Coronavirus was disturbing everybody in the world but said despite the disease, Government would continue to tackle its developmental projects in the Region.

She disclosed that contractors contracted to execute projects in the Region were still on them but said the Contractors would delay because of the Coronavirus.

Mrs. Eugenia Kusi seized the opportunity to emphasize on regular hand washing habit.

She urged the good people of Ellembelle to continue to wash their hands with soap under running water frequently to avoid contracting and spreading of the virus.

"I will urge everybody to wash his or her hands everyday, wherever there is no water use sanitizer to make that the disease is contained and vanished in Ghana. This disease can't kill we Ghanaians because if you look at other countries their cases you can see that our cases are low and we Ghanaians too listen to the advice our President has told us", she concluded.

Ghana has recorded 313 confirmed cases with 6 deaths of Coronavirus.