[ 2021-02-10 ]

Hon Kwaku Agyemang Manu, Health Minister designate

$100m Allocated For COVID-19 Fight Exhausted – Health Minister-designate
The Minister of Health-designate, Kwaku
Agyeman-Manu has disclosed that some $100 million
allocated for the fight against COVID-19 has been
exhausted.

He made this disclosure when he appeared before
Parliament’s Appointments Committee on
Wednesday, February 10, 2021.

Mr. Agyeman-Manu, however, disclosed that some
$120 million loan facility from the World Bank is
about maturing for use by the Health Ministry to
boost the COVID-19 fight in Ghana.

“The Ministry of Health initially got $100
million allocation to spend on COVID-19. That
amount has been exhausted, and we have got another
money that is just about to mature for the
Ministry to utilize which is about $120 million
from the World Bank, and it is a loan,” he
said.

But touching on new measures that will be put in
place to ensure that government is able to control
the current surge, the former Health Minister who
has been re-nominated by President Akufo-Addo
said, the strategies used over the last months
have worked for the country, hence will be
maintained.

“We have battled Covid for nearly 11 months. The
strategies we have used have worked for us in
Ghana. If you look at our deaths or even our
infection rate at the point where we slowed down
transmission to this level, we must be thankful
and grateful to God and our President for leading
the battle.

“We are not going to change soo much. The only
new things we are going to do are the new things
that have come up on the globe like the
vaccination.

“But apart from that, we are beefing up our risk
communication again and we have started to ensure
that Ghanaians adhere strictly to the Covid
protocols. That is the only solution,” the
Dormaa Central MP, stressed.

Source - Peacefm online

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