The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has called on the National Identification Authority (NIA) to suspend with immediate effect the ongoing mass registration exercise in the Eastern Region.
In a press statement signed and issued on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 by the President of the GMA, Dr Frank Ankobea, and the General Secretary, Dr Justice Yankson, the GMA said it was in the interest of public health and safety to suspend the exercise.
It said the “mass registration exercise also defeats the spirit and letter of the directives (especially on mass gathering) issued by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana as part of the measures to combat the COVID-19 outbreak in the country”.
The GMA urged the government to begin enforcement of self-isolation of all Ghanaian citizens and residents returning into Ghana from countries with high disease burden of COVID-19 in accordance with the self-isolation guidelines as issued by the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
The GMA also calls on all Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Corporate Ghana to complement the government’s efforts at combating COVID-19 in the country.
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