A doctor who works at the Ledzokuku Municipal Hospital (LEKMA Hospital) at Teshie in the Greater Accra Region has tested positive for COVID-19.
The Medical Officer is the first frontline medical staff known publicly to have contracted the disease.
Citi News reported that the Doctor may have picked up the virus while working with a private facility in assisting the Ghana Aviation Company Limited (GACL) to screen persons arriving in the country and some persons in quarantine.
Reports indicate that due to the knowledge of the fact that such practitioners risk contracting the disease, a decision was taken that all those involved in the screening be screened themselves.
Following that exercise, the Doctor’s screening result came out positive although he is asymptomatic.
"The LEKMA Hospital’s theatre has since been closed down for a disinfection exercise in accordance with stated protocols because the Doctor in question conducted a procedure at the theatre," - the Municipal Health Executive, Madam Jacqueline told NEAT FM.
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