LEKMA Doctor tests positive for coronavirus

A Doctor at the Ledzekuku Municipal Hospital (LEKMA Hospital) has tested positive for coronavirus. The news was revealed by the Member of Parliament of the constituency, Dr. Okoe Boye.

According to the Member of Parliament who is a Doctor himself, the LEKMA doctor contracted the virus whiles testing people who returned to Ghana.

Working with the Ghana Aviation Company Limited (GACL) to test people who returned to Ghana, the LEKMA doctor contracted the virus.

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The hospital has closed the down it theater for a disinfection exercise as the infected doctor performed operation on a pregnant woman there.

“When you have a confirmed case, the unit where that doctor works, we normally close that place, disinfect and open after two or three days after,” Bernard Okoe Boye said.

Ghana is yet to record any new case since the evening of Sunday 30 March 2020 and all 94 University of Ghana students who were placed under 14 days quarantine have tested negative.

Source: ghsplash.com