Some frontline health workers who have been deployed to undertake contact tracing exercise in the Greater Accra Region, last week had to flee for their lives after they were chased out by some residents.
The contact tracers, as part of their usual routine, had gone to a locality along the coast within the metropolis to find some potential contacts of a COVID-19 patient but were met with spontaneous hostility.
This is according to the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu who was addressing a routine press briefing on the disease in Accra on Tuesday, May 5, 2020.
The minister who finds the development worrying enjoined the public to, in their interest, desist from such unpatriotic acts.
“Last four days or so, the Director-General told me that some of our young people who are doing contact tracing have been sacked when they went to someplace in James Town or Bukom.”
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“Please, they are coming in our own interest, so if you sack them and there is one amongst you there, there will be a problem. So allow our contact tracing teams access to you. If they invite you on the telephone, pay heed to it and get to them. When they come to your house, treat them nicely and let them come and take your sample so that we all stay away from this disease,” he said.
“If for some reason, you have come into contact with anybody, we have people who are doing what we call contact tracing. They will call you nicely on the telephone or they will come to your home. Please give them space.”
“They might have picked somebody who is positive and the person has told them that over the last three days, I visited this man, I visited this house, I visited here. And when they get your contact, they will come to you to try to find out how you are doing and they will take your sample to be sure that you haven’t contracted the disease. So allow them to let them come into our homes for own protection,” he counseled.
Source: ABCNewsgh.com
