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.
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