Health Ministry inspects Ebola center at Tema

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Ministry of Health

Officials of the Ministry of Health led

by the Deputy Minister Victor Asare Bampoe have visited the newly

constructed Ebola medical store and treatment centre at the Tema

General hospital.

Ministry of Health
Ministry of Health

Barry Callebaut, a Non-Governmental Swiss cocoa processing

company, constructed the 15-bed treatment centre and the store

estimated at GH?80,000.

Mr John Andre, the Managing Director of Barry Callebaut,

noted that, when the need was felt in August 2014 to support the

Ebola centre, the company and the Swiss Embassy coordinated with

the Ministry of Health to raise GHC80,000 for the project.

The organization said it was impressed by Ghana?s active

participation in tackling Ebola on the ground by sending 42

medical volunteers to both Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Mr Bampoe said although the country has not recorded any

positive case of the Ebola Virus Disease, which infected over

20,000 and killed nearly 10,000 in West Africa, the country still

needed to take preventive steps.

GNA

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