Ghana Health Insurance Boss Contracts Covid-19

She tested positive on Sunday

Ghana Health Insurance Boss Contracts Covid-19

The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby, has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Dr Dsane-Selby reportedly tested positive for the disease on Sunday, June 14.

She is the second high profile Ghanaian official on record after the Health Minister, Mr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu, to have tested positive for the virulent disease.

Speaking to Accra-based radio station, Asaase Radio, Dr. Dsane-Selby said she tested positive for the disease after experiencing tiredness, body pains, and headaches.

She said she contacted a colleague at the Noguchi Medical Research Institute and “a team came to the house and tested and I tested positive.”

 

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“I live with my mother. Luckily, she tested negative and so did the house help. So I immediately self-quarantined,” she added.

“I’m fine. If feels like a bad bout of malaria. I just felt tired, quite a lot of body pains, muscle ache, headaches at the beginning but not anymore,” she said.

Dr. Dsane-Selby said she has contacted all those she came into contact with over the last few days “and they’ve been for testing, and as far as I’m aware, they’re negative.”

In other related developments, the Health Minister, Mr. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has been discharged from the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) where he was receiving treatment.

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who disclosed this at a press briefing on Monday evening, said Agyeman-Manu is currently responding to treatment at home.