Ranking Member on Health Committee of Parliament, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, believes timely action is the only medication and possible cure for the treatment of the novel coronavirus as it will help stop the spread of the virus to other uninfected communities.
He accused President Akufo-Addo of engaging in lip-service instead of acting proactively by providing the needed support for the health workers and other frontline workers to contain the spread of the COVID-19.
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Moring Show, the Juaboso lawmaker was emphatic that the confirmed cases of COVID-19 has reached this height simply because President Akufo-Addo did not have any actionable plan to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) before he announced that 100 million dollars has beenset aside to combat the pandemic.
“I have told you that the medication for this sickness is time; because no matter the measures you put in place if you don’t act on the measures on time, and you only engage in rhetoric, by the time action is taken, the situation would have blown out of hands and it will be better if those measures were not put in place at all...," he chided.
What Do You Expect?
He also blamed President Nana Akufo-Addo for some frontline health workers getting infected as reports indicate that some doctors and nurses at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, LEKMA Hospital, Tema Polyclinic and other health centres have contracted the virus due to lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
“ . . if you have a President who has engaged the nation not less than 4 times and whenever he addresses the nation he says they are putting measures in place to get enough PPEs and as soon as he is done talking, we receive reports from health professionals that they are without these PPEs at their various health centres, what do you expect to happen?” he chided.
“ . . what we need the most is PPEs because those frontline health workers must first protect themselves in order to protect us and so if they don’t have the confidence to protect us then that is dangerous. For now, what we are saying is that there should be provision of more PPEs for the health workers and again we should conduct mass tests,” he pointed out.
Cheapest Social Intervention
Touching on the measures announced by President Akufo-Addo in the wake of the partial lockdown to fight the spread of COVID-19, especially absorbing three months water bills of Ghanaians, which received plaudits from several quarters, the NDC MPs described it as the “cheapest” social intervention.
According to him, even though the free water supply forms part of many suggestions made by former President John Mahama and the Minority in Parliament, the current administration deliberately ignored other social interventions such as the free electricity supply, and the talk tax.
“Every intervention even if it is Ghc1, it is important and it can bring relief to some people but you see all the suggestions that came, which former President Mahama made some of them as well as Parliament through the Minority . . . all the suggestions, it looks like the President adopted the cheapest of the many social interventions. He is picking and choosing those that he can easily implement,” he analysed.
“We said that as people are locked down in the house, water bill will go high as many people will use water as we have been asked to wash our hands regularly, and again the consumption of electricity will be high and so it will be better for the government to for the next three months take care of these bills for Ghanaians.”
“ . . people in the house due to the lockdown will use a lot data as they use the internet and make phone calls sitting at home and since the government does not have 100 percent control over the data, the government should liaise with the telecommunication companies to reduce the numerous taxes in order for the companies to reduce the charges for the consumers. We made these suggestions available for the President and he decided to rather opt for the free water supply,” he stated.
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i think there is nothing in this mans head.
apology of a member of Parliament. He is not matured in his posturing and orientation.
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Hmmmm" wow what an MP? If you have nothing to say, just don't say it.You are making yourself too unpopular for your constituents. What contribution has your bra bra bra made to the problem of COVID 19? Busia in the late 1960s as part of his civic education programme had a slogan "if you have nothing to say, don't say it here". Learn from it.
At this point we have been advised to wash our hands often and stay clean , we need water .so its rther the most needed . not everything have a price. the air we breath ids free but when taken away for long you will die. so please dont let hatred for somoene blid your thinking ,its disgracefulle for the people you represent and GH parliament
according to this man Akuffo Addo is implementing the easeiest ones, so you want him to implement the complicated ones instead, the ones that takes 2 yrs to finish. are you guys sure this man is norrmal? has he smoked something because this just too much to accept and a common mistake. this man is loosing it.
Akandoh your level of intelligence is extremely low. Your line of argument is very poor. How do you call water the cheapest. Tell me, is there anything in this crisis which is more important than water. You are one of the NDC committee members of Covid 19 . You are a d!sgrace to your constituency and parliament as a whole. The fact that something is expensive doesn’t make it important. Compare the price of the air we breath and the water we drink to other items, even recharge cards are more expensive than the item mentioned earlier. Can say recharge card is more important than water and air. Your stup!dy leaves a lot to desire
Akandoh is a perfect reflection of the NDC party. He lacks intelligence and common logic, yet he's is full of himself. How the NDC settled on such an 1diot as a ranking member on health is mindboggling. NDC is simply incredible!
This f.0.0l must be forcibly removed from parliament.... He is a disgrace to parliament.
the cheapest which your mahama couldn't even implement for a month, very shamefulll and you still have mouthh to talk, you see your 30 empty trotro ambulances, ask if Nana hadn't bought the 307 world's standard ambulances, what would have happened at this time of corona virus. Charley you ndc guys must learn to zip it ooo, because you are making Ghanaians more angryyy, my advice to you.