Covid-19: Tamale Teaching Hospital Reopened after Fumigation Exercise

An official at the hospital asserted that the laboratory has currently been opened to serve its purpose

Covid-19: Tamale Teaching Hospital Reopened after Fumigation Exercise
Tamale Teaching Hospital Reopened after Fumigation Exercise

The Tamale Teaching Hospital Laboratory has been reopened, after a fumigation exercise was carried out at the laboratory amid covid-19 fears.

The laboratory was closed on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 over concerns that staff there may have been exposed to some Burkinabes who tested positive for COVID-19.

However, the Public Relations Officer for the hospital, Misbow Mohammed in an interview with Accra based Citi News, said the laboratory had now been opened.

 

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“The Tamale Teaching Hospital lab was closed down on Wednesday, 1st April, 2020 to make way for us to do fumigation of the place and this was as a result of the fact that blood samples from Burkinabe lady who tested positive for COVID-19 had gone through our laboratory system. We needed to do fumigation there so the lab was closed for fumigation to be done. Subsequently, the lab has been opened and as I speak to you the lab is running. We opened the lab this morning.”

The coronavirus case count in the country currently stands at 204. The Greater Accra, Ashanti, Northern, Upper West, and Eastern Regions have all recorded Covid-19 cases.

 Accra has the highest numbers with over 180 cases.