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Coronavirus: KATH outlines precautionary measures; shuts OPD

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has outlined some additional measures to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.
In a press release signed by its Chief Executive, Dr, Oheneba Owusu-Danso, the hospital indicated that it was suspending all elective surgeries except caesarean sections.
All outpatient clinics have been closed down until further notice, all clinical meetings and seminars have been suspended and all clinical rotations and attachments by all categories of students have been suspended,” the hospital said in a statement.
However, the Accident and Emergency Centre, Family Medicine Directorate (polyclinic) and the Paediatric Emergency Unit shall continue to offer emergency services.
The Labour Wards and Mother & Baby Unit (MBU) shall also continue to offer normal services. Management of the hospital also cautioned the general public to desist from using the hospital as a thoroughfare as measures are being put in place to protect the general public from the virus.
The Ghana Health Service says all patients who have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) are getting better.
Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service in an interview on Eyewitness News on Tuesday said the patients are recovering and will be discharged once they are cleared.
He said none of the patients had deteriorated since they were isolated and started receiving treatment.
Source: Fiilafmonline/CitiNews