The Social Security and National Insurance Trust, (SSNIT) Hospital at Osu has ordered about 60 workers including doctors, nurses, and other staff to go into self-quarantine after two cases of Coronavirus were recorded at the facility.
The two patients were brought in separately and admitted for other conditions but upon suspicion, samples were taken for testing after they had been in the facility for almost a week and they turned out to be positive.
One of the two cases was in a private ward. The other was in a ward with several other people.
It’s reported that two wards have been closed down as the workers who had contact with the patients go into self-quarantine.
Meanwhile, the whole facility will be shut down tomorrow, May 9, 2020, for a full fumigation.
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According to reports, the facility is having challenges relocating people on admission to other facilities like the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and Ridge Hospital because all of them say their places are full.
Some of the healthcare persons, who have been asked to self-quarantine, say it’s been more than 72 hours since their samples were taken for testing after being asked to self-quarantine and results are not yet back, making them anxious.
They are additionally questioning why the hospital did not make arrangements to quarantine them and rather asked them to self quarantine.
Below is the notice on closure for fumigation tomorrow:
