Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu says the government has allocated an amount of 2.5 million Ghana cedis as start up funds to mobilise support to prevent the spread of Coronavirus into the country.
He says 10,000 private protection equipment will be imported and insurance cover will be bought for frontline health practitioners.
Addressing Parliament on the country’s preparedness to deal with the virus, Mr Agyemang-Manu said the country’s health system is on high alert to avert possible entry of the deadly Coronavirus.
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The Minister also revealed no Ghanaian in China had been infested so far.
Coronavirus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in Wuhan in the Hubei Province of China. It has killed about 300 people and infected more than 2,700.
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The National President of the Ghanaian students in China, Felix Gyawu Addo, on Monday, told JoyNews the Ghanaian Ambassador to China, Edward Boateng, will be meeting the student leadership of Wuhan to discuss the issue and decide the best solution to the situation at hand.
