Coronavirus: Ghana’s recovery rate low - Alex Segbefia

Former Health Minister and a member of the COVID-19 team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Alex Segbefia says it is taking too long for people to recover from the COVID-19 virus.

The situation he suggested could create challenges for us in managing the outbreak if the treatment processes are not intensified.

Mr. Segbefia is also worried the country is having the lowest recovery rate but was quick to state that it is due to the way Ghana is conducting its testing in determining the recoveries.

Whereas Ghana has adopted a process to conduct three separate tests to determine the recoveries, other countries are conducting between just one and two tests. This may have accounted for the low recovery rate, he explained.

However, no matter the way you look at it, our recovery rate is still low, he added.

He said the more people that sick, the more people would need isolation and the hospitals would not be able to cope. So, we are in a crisis situation.

He also clarified that the NDC team did not criticise the government because of its policy in dealing with the outbreak, but the delay in implementing the policy.

"If you delay in implementing policy, and you allow the window to open too much, by the time you implement the policy, you would have lost time and more people would have been infected.”

Ghana as at May 12, 2020, recorded 5127 cases o0f the coronavirus with 22 deaths.