Ebola scare: Doctors desert patients at Achimota Hospital

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BOMBER 11 years ago

hahahahaha,running for their dear lives

hahahahaha,running for their dear lives
ENEMIES OF PROGRESS 11 years ago

YOU WILL GET YOURS!!! SORRY SOB!!!

YOU WILL GET YOURS!!! SORRY SOB!!!
ADWEN 11 years ago

By the time this MAHAMA and his NDC idiots, dimwits, incompetents and corrupt morons realise they harm and destruction they are causing to Ghana, it will be too late.
JD MAHAMA thinks he is a "leader" by virtue of the fact ...
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By the time this MAHAMA and his NDC idiots, dimwits, incompetents and corrupt morons realise they harm and destruction they are causing to Ghana, it will be too late.
JD MAHAMA thinks he is a "leader" by virtue of the fact that he is occupying the seat of the presidency by corrupt means and as such he should by default respect him. JD MAHAMA very corrupt, incompetent and without vision for Ghana and his follows thinks leadership automatically confers respect. Can JD Mahama tell Ghanaians the source of all these scandals - Cholera, GYEEDA, SADA, SUBAH, 2014 World Cup Fiasco and Afriyie-Ankra and Yamin, the impending EBOLA and his promise that the country is well prepared for potential EBOLA outbreak? and many more scandals? The sight of this corrupt and incompetent personality imposed on Ghanaians as a president anytime makes me feel like throwing up!!! A corrupt individual imposed on Ghanaians as a president. Shame on you JD MAHAMA.
jOEy lOndOn 11 years ago

Foolish fool,on top of all fools...kwasiaaa waa..Ebola dont know ndc nor npp...your Hitler, am sure could have deliberately spread the Virus at all costaricanischen...All In the Name of Power!

Foolish fool,on top of all fools...kwasiaaa waa..Ebola dont know ndc nor npp...your Hitler, am sure could have deliberately spread the Virus at all costaricanischen...All In the Name of Power!
NII COMMEY 11 years ago

I was part of a US volunteer medical team that treated patients in Ghana at Korle-Bu teaching hospital. What I witnessed there made me sick to my stomach. Basic infection control is virtually non-existent at Korle-Bu. I saw d ...
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I was part of a US volunteer medical team that treated patients in Ghana at Korle-Bu teaching hospital. What I witnessed there made me sick to my stomach. Basic infection control is virtually non-existent at Korle-Bu. I saw doctors violate basic standard precaution guidelines. Many of them cross contaminated patients, co-workers and workspace without a thought. While a saw a handful of doctors and nurses wash their hands and disinfect properly, the vast majority had very poor hygiene habits. It soon dawned on me that these poor habits had been honed for years, and the violators were not even aware of the harm they were doing. I did not see a single roll of paper towel at any of the handwashing sinks at Korle-Bu. Instead, there is a dirty towel for everyone to use. Any infection control instructor will tell you of the essential need for paper towel in effective handwashing. If something so basic cannot be achieved at Korle-Bu - the crown jewel of Ghana's teaching hospitals - and if cholera cannot be controlled and contained, how can Ghana prepare for Ebola?
Dr Jay 11 years ago

I'm sorry they did run away because we doctors and other healthcare workers do not work in a vacuum.

WE NEED TOOLS TO ISOLATE AND CARE FOR SUCH DEADLY HEMORRHAGIC CASES.
Unfortunately the tools are not here or there.

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I'm sorry they did run away because we doctors and other healthcare workers do not work in a vacuum.

WE NEED TOOLS TO ISOLATE AND CARE FOR SUCH DEADLY HEMORRHAGIC CASES.
Unfortunately the tools are not here or there.

For example, how can we set up isolation spots at Tema General Hospital and other wrong places when the likely points of entry into the country are left open?

Please answer the following questions truthfully:
1. How many of the isolation centers for Ebola have been completed and equipped?
2. Do we have special transport just in case to isolate and transport cases those so called Ebola centers?
3.How many of the 10,000 PPE promised have arrived in the country or have been disbursed?
4. Have we set up areas at the so called isolation centers to disposed off or burry the unfortunate ones or are we going to transport the dead to separate location for burial?

If you cannot answer any of these questions then please STOP blaming doctors because we are not equipped to handle Ebola yet.
Rather blame your politicians both NDC and NPP.

Sorry I'm not a prophet of doom but it is only a matter of time when Ebola will hit Ghana.
For if it is happening to our brothers and sisters in neighboring west African countries then it can happen here at home.
However, the big question is are we prepared?

If we can not manage Vibro Cholera by simply cleaning our filth how can we manage deadly viral hemorrhagic like Ebola? Only God knows!

Note: Ghana has huge wealth but 1% of the population (politicians) have hijacked 99% of the wealth while 99% of the population live on 1% of our wealth.

May be another coup is warranted to clean up these cycles of corruption mess we found ourselves in with both NDC and NPP.
Thank you.
Mawuli 11 years ago

Thank you Dr. Jay.You have made a very valid point. It is just the same as asking a professional soldier in uniform to go do battle with the enemy without basic weapons of war or battle preparedness.

Thank you Dr. Jay.You have made a very valid point. It is just the same as asking a professional soldier in uniform to go do battle with the enemy without basic weapons of war or battle preparedness.
Nii COMMEY 11 years ago

You dodged the issue. You do not need a PPE in the form of an infection control suit to practice basic infection control. Standard Precautions are just that -STANDARD- and not complicated. The question you should be asking is ...
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You dodged the issue. You do not need a PPE in the form of an infection control suit to practice basic infection control. Standard Precautions are just that -STANDARD- and not complicated. The question you should be asking is - "how can we as Ghanaian doctors effectively manage infectious diseases when we cannot even follow simple standard precautions" Even if you had the most sophisticated medical equipment, your current infection control practices would render them ineffective. Look in the mirror and do first things first. Clean your house while you wait for your much cherished PPEs, so you can take maximum advantage of them when they arrive. SMH
Mawuli 11 years ago

Uncle Nii!You have also raised a very important point however, let me also remind you that, Ebola isn't any ordinary infectious disease. With all the precautions taken by some of the western health care practitioners who got ...
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Uncle Nii!You have also raised a very important point however, let me also remind you that, Ebola isn't any ordinary infectious disease. With all the precautions taken by some of the western health care practitioners who got and are still being infected in the affected countries do not know how they got infected. They took all the precautions that they knew but still got infected. I will dare say there is a lot we still do not know about this disease and therefore have with certain aspects of your argument.

If it is cholera and some few other infectious diseases, I do get that but here, the Doc and the topic is about Ebola.
Irrespective of the argument at stake, your observation is right on the money. Both concerns are of value and therefore should be implemented in tandem.
ZoRRo 11 years ago

If the government does not put the right facilities and equipment in place for you to work, you do so at your own demise. Doctors have died in Sierra Leone whilst the government sat idle.

If the government does not put the right facilities and equipment in place for you to work, you do so at your own demise. Doctors have died in Sierra Leone whilst the government sat idle.

Dr Jay 11 years ago

Google Ebola and read about it. Educate yourself.

Google Ebola and read about it. Educate yourself.
K APPIAH 11 years ago

PLEASE DONT THRUST NDC ,EBOLA IS HAS BEEN IN GHANA All THRUST BUT IN THEIR USUAL POSTURING THEY THREATEN EVERY HEALTH PERSONEL WHO TRIES TO EXPOSE IT.NDC AND MAHAMA ARE VERY DANGEROUS

PLEASE DONT THRUST NDC ,EBOLA IS HAS BEEN IN GHANA All THRUST BUT IN THEIR USUAL POSTURING THEY THREATEN EVERY HEALTH PERSONEL WHO TRIES TO EXPOSE IT.NDC AND MAHAMA ARE VERY DANGEROUS
RX 11 years ago

This running away of health workers in an Ebola situation is in sharp contrast to what happened in Nigeria. The more health workers run away from an Ebola case, the more it will spread because it gives the Ebola patient or th ...
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This running away of health workers in an Ebola situation is in sharp contrast to what happened in Nigeria. The more health workers run away from an Ebola case, the more it will spread because it gives the Ebola patient or those who brought him there the right to leave that hospital and go wherever they choose, in a bid to get a cure and in so doing, they get into contact with more unsuspecting people, thereby spreading the disease and the contact history of this patient is lost.
kwaku 11 years ago

boko haram nigeriams again? why wont you leave us alone and stay in your hell

boko haram nigeriams again? why wont you leave us alone and stay in your hell
Maame Abena 11 years ago

Note: Ghana has huge wealth but 1% of the population (politicians) have hijacked 99% of the wealth while 99% of the population live on 1% of our wealth.

Note: Ghana has huge wealth but 1% of the population (politicians) have hijacked 99% of the wealth while 99% of the population live on 1% of our wealth.
Mike 11 years ago

Dr. Jay,
You have said it all. Nothing needs added to your response.
The very last paragraph of your response might be a possibility and a way to clean the mess, UNFORTUNATELY.
I simply don't see how it could be corrected. ...
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Dr. Jay,
You have said it all. Nothing needs added to your response.
The very last paragraph of your response might be a possibility and a way to clean the mess, UNFORTUNATELY.
I simply don't see how it could be corrected. Violence should NOT be the option but unfortunately the educated ones who should know better and help in solving problems are looting the country and amassing wealth.
Note: Ghana has huge wealth but 1% of the population (politicians) have hijacked 99% of the wealth while 99% of the population live on 1% of our wealth.

May be another coup is warranted to clean up these cycles of corruption mess we found ourselves in with both NDC and NPP.
Thank you.
sammy 11 years ago

i knew nigerians are the ones that will carry this sickness 2 ghana.Cant they stay in their own country?Ghana is the place now for them to come and look for money.Funny enough there are more hungry people in nigeria than any ...
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i knew nigerians are the ones that will carry this sickness 2 ghana.Cant they stay in their own country?Ghana is the place now for them to come and look for money.Funny enough there are more hungry people in nigeria than any other african country.
ALI MAHAMA 11 years ago

Where is the readiness to combact the ebola we talk about.Insteadof useing our scarce resources to take care of health problems we are wasting it to buuild a socalled international a socalled International Airport to convey ...
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Where is the readiness to combact the ebola we talk about.Insteadof useing our scarce resources to take care of health problems we are wasting it to buuild a socalled international a socalled International Airport to convey Yams and Pilgrims to Accra and Mecca respectfully because of votes.God save Ghana.
Honesty 11 years ago

Is this the same doctors trained with the poor farmer's hard earned cash and yet, who think they are better than everyone in Ghana and so must earn like an PM and treated like kings and queens because they are intelligent an ...
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Is this the same doctors trained with the poor farmer's hard earned cash and yet, who think they are better than everyone in Ghana and so must earn like an PM and treated like kings and queens because they are intelligent and great risk takers?

My God I hate Ghanaian doctors.
In fact, in the West where they always threaten to disappear to, they are treated like garbage even when they get the chance to do medicine. Bastards.
Rastafara"I" 11 years ago

You do not run away from ebola a country...you face and eradicate it...

You do not run away from ebola a country...you face and eradicate it...

TKN 11 years ago

Hope this is not true, an ebola case in achimota hospital, that place is a mortuary by it self. A hospital that keeps dead body with patients in the ward till the families come to confirm the decease. I was there two weeks a ...
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Hope this is not true, an ebola case in achimota hospital, that place is a mortuary by it self. A hospital that keeps dead body with patients in the ward till the families come to confirm the decease. I was there two weeks ago and I wept. That place is a hell! (WOMEN'S WARD 2 WAS THE PLACE)
MOI 11 years ago

I DO HOPE THIS IS NOT TRUE. WE ARE ALREADY BATTLING CHOLERA AND TO HAVE EBOLA AS WELL IN GHANA WILL BE TOO MUCH FOR THE COUNTRY TO COPE WITH.

I DO HOPE THIS IS NOT TRUE. WE ARE ALREADY BATTLING CHOLERA AND TO HAVE EBOLA AS WELL IN GHANA WILL BE TOO MUCH FOR THE COUNTRY TO COPE WITH.
pkirks 11 years ago

Why are Ghanaians so fools to the extend that they put all the blames on the president . The president is doing all he can to prevent it from entering the country. Warnings are being given through the media but the individual ...
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Why are Ghanaians so fools to the extend that they put all the blames on the president . The president is doing all he can to prevent it from entering the country. Warnings are being given through the media but the individual still want the president to go to their various houses and talk to their knuckleheads.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

DISGRACFULL PREZ. MAHAMA ( MA HA ME MAN)

DISGRACFULL PREZ. MAHAMA ( MA HA ME MAN)
onipanua 11 years ago

Why not your mother's house which is also cholera infested? You fool!!

Why not your mother's house which is also cholera infested? You fool!!
Uncle Oyibo 11 years ago

On Tuesday September 9, 2014, Prophet Owusu claimed he has the antidote to cure Ebola. Now we have Ebola patients in Ghana, not Liberia. This is an occasion for great celebration for the prophet to apply his antidote for Ebol ...
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On Tuesday September 9, 2014, Prophet Owusu claimed he has the antidote to cure Ebola. Now we have Ebola patients in Ghana, not Liberia. This is an occasion for great celebration for the prophet to apply his antidote for Ebola! But where is he?

"Prophet Paul Owusu, a popular man of God and resident of Abotreye, a community in the Amenfi East District of the Western Region, is claiming to have secured an antidote capable of treating Ebola patients."
pkirks 11 years ago

What at all do nigeriand want from us. Can't they stay at their own place and I guess the immigration is not doing well their jobs, if not to continue to rake bribes from Nigerians and risk the lives of Ghanaians. Seriously G ...
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What at all do nigeriand want from us. Can't they stay at their own place and I guess the immigration is not doing well their jobs, if not to continue to rake bribes from Nigerians and risk the lives of Ghanaians. Seriously Ghana should close all his borders till the cure for Ebola is found . We can't risk to bring in Ebola to our beloved country , whikes facing economical difficulties . I would have done the same if I was that doctor
Lagos Boy 11 years ago

you are wrong, PLS come to the street of Lagos and Abuja to see countless Ghanaian. Pls don't go further or !!!!!

you are wrong, PLS come to the street of Lagos and Abuja to see countless Ghanaian. Pls don't go further or !!!!!
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

The space here is freeee so idiots like pkirks can exhibit their ignorance and intellectual deficiency to castigate others and moreso Nigerians who are largely benevolence to Ghanaians. Between Nigerians and Ghanaians which o ...
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The space here is freeee so idiots like pkirks can exhibit their ignorance and intellectual deficiency to castigate others and moreso Nigerians who are largely benevolence to Ghanaians. Between Nigerians and Ghanaians which of the two is ungrayeful, looking back at history of how Ghanaians were recieved and accomodated when they had to run away from the hunger of the early 80s and late 90s. Even today, Nigerian companies are providing employments to Ghanaians in the areas of Banking, Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Air Transportations, Commerce, Insurances ect. What has any Ghanaian company been able to do even in a nearby Togo, to say the least extenting the same gesture to Nigeria. All Ghanaians do is to wake up and insult everybody at sight everyday of their lives, which is why Ghana is still a begger country well after 58 years of independence. Ghanaians are rather the most envious and ungrateful human beings ever I've seen in the whole workd.
Factually Reliable 11 years ago

419, learn sense before you comment. Kwasia, if a nigeria establishes a company here in Ghana, you think it is the good of Ghana or he wants to make profit. All the nigeria companies in Ghana are father christmas. The most co ...
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419, learn sense before you comment. Kwasia, if a nigeria establishes a company here in Ghana, you think it is the good of Ghana or he wants to make profit. All the nigeria companies in Ghana are father christmas. The most corrupt companies and banks in Ghana are nigerian banks. So stop posing like you are dishing money to Ghanaians. Since you know history, you should as well also go back to history as to why the Allien compulsion order was given by the dwarfs ancestory in Ghana. Do you also know in 1983 when the situation was worse in Ghana, your stupid nigeria government sacked all ghanaians from nigeria up to the piont most ghanaians were robbed even at your borders to Benin. Gyemi, think before you make such stupid statements.

MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

Insults has become the trademark of all Ghanaians, the average Ghanaian is bereft of any intelligemt contributions to topic that bothers on ideas hense the resoet to insults. Factually Reliable, go back and read your piece an ...
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Insults has become the trademark of all Ghanaians, the average Ghanaian is bereft of any intelligemt contributions to topic that bothers on ideas hense the resoet to insults. Factually Reliable, go back and read your piece and count the number of times you pu tuated your comments with insults, that is how stupid you Ghanaians are. Is it not a fact that 99% Nigeriwns domicile in Ghana are either students who pay fees to your poor country in dollars, or traders earning their legitimate money, unlike most lazy Ghanaians who travelled to Nigeria to engage in petty thievery and menial street cleaning jobs. Get down to your neighbourhood and see the large populations of young jobless Ghsnaians engaged in Ghanaian version of 419 called "Sakawa" Compound idiot, think deeply before you insult a Nigerian, you'll get a more than equal pound of deserving insults in return.
Adobah () 11 years ago

Mr. Lukeman seems to lack knowledge in history or perhaps too young to know what Ghanaians went through whilst in Nigeria during those hunger days he mentioned. In this view I will like to render a little education for Mr. Lu ...
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Mr. Lukeman seems to lack knowledge in history or perhaps too young to know what Ghanaians went through whilst in Nigeria during those hunger days he mentioned. In this view I will like to render a little education for Mr. Lukeman to start with: Nigerians flooded Ghana in the fifties and stayed on till early seventies when they were asked to go if they were unwilling to secure residency particulars to live in Ghana. whether they understood the implications of the order by the government or not, most of them stayed on without the pappers till finally driven out. Yes the Nigerians did so well in Ghana but they also broke almost every rule in the country. As a child growing up with them (Nigerians)I never knew the difference. they were my friends, school mates, church members and etc and were treated as such by all. they held propperties if they can afford and even held position of power in Ghana, so they enjoyed as much as any Ghanaian did in those days.
on the other hand, Ghanaians were looked down upon, treated and threaten with contempt. Ghanaians filled the positions that Ngerians lack in many fields and these helped Nigeria on developmental level during the oil boom. However, when Nigeria saw Ghana in dire state of emmergency they ordered Ghanaians out with immediate effect. While Ghanaians wept for loosing friends and colleagues when Nigerians were leaving Ghana, Nigerias on the contrally robbed, looth and beat Ghanaian and finally sealed the borders to create more hardships in those stressful times. Eventually Ghanaians got home (not fogetting those lost lives in the country and on transit) with cuts and bruises, sick and nothing to show for the hard work in Nigeria. Now the table has turned on Nigerians, they have trooped back into Ghana (in numbers). in the name of ECOWAS. Living in Ghana as if they were in their own country, they are shamelessly arrogant and very ignorant to say that they have all to offer Ghana! Mr. Lukeman think again, its rather the other way round. So if any of the two countries were to be a "begger country" your country Nigeria will certainly be it. You are cordially accepted and accommodated in a safe country that Nigeria can never be, so be quiet and let your people enjoy the safety net they have in Ghana.
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

Aboabah, pls. Google "Eko Atlantic City" and see how far behind Ghana has lost grounds on both human and physical development in the 21st century. Ghanaians should stop the daily empty rhetorics and work hard to catch up with ...
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Aboabah, pls. Google "Eko Atlantic City" and see how far behind Ghana has lost grounds on both human and physical development in the 21st century. Ghanaians should stop the daily empty rhetorics and work hard to catch up with the pace of developments elsewhere.
trueGhanaian 11 years ago

Eko Atlantic City is a vision not a reality

Eko Atlantic City is a vision not a reality
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

Yes, it is the nature of Ghanaians never to appreciate what others are getting right and doing better than them. Any wonder why smaller economies like Uganda, Angola, Sudan, Kenya etc. all have Forbes rated billionaires and G ...
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Yes, it is the nature of Ghanaians never to appreciate what others are getting right and doing better than them. Any wonder why smaller economies like Uganda, Angola, Sudan, Kenya etc. all have Forbes rated billionaires and Ghana is still struggling to raise an internally groomed rich person. Your negative commentary on "Eko Atlantic City" projects describes the real envious charracter of the Ghanaian. Did you not read President Clinton's comment on an African wonder of a replica of Shanghai City rising in Lagos sea front. You can continue to live in a dreamland and continue to think Eko Atlantic City is a vision and not reality as your colleague Ghanaians do most times when others are making a meaninful progress of their development. Nigerians who live by the day to see the new city taking shape on a 50,000 sq kilometre sea front and who are also reading your piece of ignorance will laugh and mock Ghanaians for their continued envy of Nigerian developments. And for your information if you care to know that on the African continent; only four countries of South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria as a country has bigger economies and richer than Lagos State where the new Atlantic city is being developed. Every Ghanaians are geneologically born envious people and that's why no Ghanaian makes any meaningful impact in the world's rich lists.
Yaw 11 years ago

Nigeria's economy is large simply because there are tens of millions of people living there. On the other hand, the average Nigerian is unproductive, hence Nigeria is stuck at $413 per capita income. Do you understand that? M ...
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Nigeria's economy is large simply because there are tens of millions of people living there. On the other hand, the average Nigerian is unproductive, hence Nigeria is stuck at $413 per capita income. Do you understand that? Meybe you do not understand macroeconomic statistics, hence your reliance on anecdotal evidence.

The number of multi-millionaires in Nigeria only speaks to the high levels of corruption and huge inequality persisting in the country. More and more Nigerians are fleeing the country to Ghana because of lack of opportunity for economic progress. Yet you fail to see that because you are behaving like the proverbial ostrich whose head is stuck in the sand.
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

I guess you are not suggesting almost 200 million Nigerians prefer they live in Ghana because of your UN Human Development Index you picked from dead internet reports which have not been updated for years. Ghanaians generally ...
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I guess you are not suggesting almost 200 million Nigerians prefer they live in Ghana because of your UN Human Development Index you picked from dead internet reports which have not been updated for years. Ghanaians generally love to decieve themselves with bogus statistics that keeps pushing Ghanaians to the brink. Many more Ghanaians are renouncing Ghanaian citizenship in Western countries, many more have defected to seek refugee status in a third world country as Brazil. How more disgraceful can that action be from a small country of just about 24 million people.? A small country that forms supporters club meant only to run away from economic crunch back at home, yet you decieve yourselves with UN statistics. Oh! my God, any wonder Nigerians describe you Ghanaians as spineless human beings who have failed over the years to define their purpose on earth. Keep on relying on statistics that is unable to assist you combart common Cholera. Ghana government continue to struggle over how to clear rubbish in the inner cities as a means of stopping common cholera and you still rely on UN statistics.? You better re-engineer you brains and accept you belong to a poor country called Ghana.
ohene 11 years ago

Rubbish. What is the logic, nor the point this Yaw, O level economics graduate talking about

Rubbish. What is the logic, nor the point this Yaw, O level economics graduate talking about
Yaw 11 years ago

Just Google Human Development Index developed by United Nations (impartial organization) and see where all Nigerians rank versus Ghanaians rather than citing one project in Nigeria and using that as the yardstick for measurin ...
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Just Google Human Development Index developed by United Nations (impartial organization) and see where all Nigerians rank versus Ghanaians rather than citing one project in Nigeria and using that as the yardstick for measuring and ranking the levels of development for the two countries. Ghana is far ahead of Nigeria in Human Development Index. Nigeria is a cesspool of corruption and criminal misappropriation of resources.
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

UN Human development index ranks Ghana higher than Nigeria and you still go cup in hand begging for aids and assistance to balance your budget,? Shameful of Ghanaians to still remain a begger nation after 58 years of independ ...
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UN Human development index ranks Ghana higher than Nigeria and you still go cup in hand begging for aids and assistance to balance your budget,? Shameful of Ghanaians to still remain a begger nation after 58 years of independence. As long as you Ghanaians don't appreciate and recognice what others are doing better than you; you"ll continue to live in deprivations and wants while others making progress. Can't you see the number of Nigerian businesses in Ghana providing job opportunities for Ghanaian families all over the country.? Think about that.!!!
Yaw 11 years ago

There are reasons why Nigerian businesses are trooping to Ghana to do business. Corruption is rampant, Cost of doing business is very high, Ghana abounds in human resources necessary for growing businesses and Ghana is better ...
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There are reasons why Nigerian businesses are trooping to Ghana to do business. Corruption is rampant, Cost of doing business is very high, Ghana abounds in human resources necessary for growing businesses and Ghana is better developed systemically than Nigeria.

Also, Boko Haram terrorism is engulfing your beloved country and the country is highly unstable. It is fair to state that Nigeria is gradually descending into a failed state and this has been predicted by the CIA several years ago.

The aforementioned are few reasons why Nigerian businesses are expanding their businesses by being present in Ghana.

I have already pointed to you the HDI. According to the World bank, GDP per capita (current US$) between 2009-2013 for Ghana was $1,850. Unfortunately, Nigeria was stuck at $413. Need I say more? Do you realize that Ghana is ahead of Nigeria in the most important categories of development and average health of economy.

These are ample reasons to back off your anecdotal comparison between Ghana and Nigeria on development.

Nigeria receives more US aid than Ghana. While it is true that Ghana receives aid and grants, the situation is symptomatic of Africa in general and of which your beloved country is included. I make no excuses for that and I wish the situation changes. In spite of that, Ghana is better managed than Nigeria where the inequality is staggeringly frightening.

Nigeria could potentially be a rich country but due to the incompetence, corruption and mismanagement of public resources, the country is stuck in a perpetual state of decline, degradation, decay and decadence. The only bright spot for Nigeria is Agriculture where the honorable hardworking minister has been doing a tremendous job and I wish Ghana had someone like that to lead our Agriculture.

Lastly, more Nigerians seek refuge in Ghana than vice versa. That tells me that Ghana has better potentials than Nigeria on the refugee front.
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

Its no longer neccessary to continue discussing anything with you based on your shallow knowledge about current events about Nigeria in particular. Nigerian businesses are expanding abroad not only in Ghana because of their v ...
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Its no longer neccessary to continue discussing anything with you based on your shallow knowledge about current events about Nigeria in particular. Nigerian businesses are expanding abroad not only in Ghana because of their very strong managerial abilities and strong financial muscles, that has nothing to do with insecurity. Don't you see Nigerian Banks are among the best in the world, not only in Ghana. 13 Nigerian Banks were ranked among the best 500 Banks in the world and none from Ghana was mentioned even in the top 1,000 banks worldwide. So don't rely on your limited knowledge to spew lies everywhere. Your knowledge about Boko Haram is also very little, hense your display of ignorance about where Boko Haram operates. Life in Nigeria is very bouyant and that's why most of your celebrities have found new territory in expanding their popularity. Take a trip to Aflao borders to do a head count of number of buses loaded with Ghanaian daily on their way to procure goods for sales in Ghana. Keep on relying on your dead internet research to support your lies qbout Nigeria. Pls. Google "Nigerian Aeronautic Space Programme" & "Eko Atlantic City" you"ll discover how far Ghanaians have used their whole life talking and insulting everybody and anybody at sight on radio without any yield of human development and how far behind Ghana has become trailing Nigeria in all sphere of human development. Keep on living in your self conceited comfort as most Ghanaians do and continue to envy Nigeria for its progress. Nigeria is moving anyway.
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

Google rather, "Nigerian space program" and not "Aeronautic Programme"

Google rather, "Nigerian space program" and not "Aeronautic Programme"
Yaw 11 years ago

It is needless to Google one phantasmic planned project. That project in no way can be used as a yardstick for any meaningful discussion on the levels of development. The average Nigerian is about 4 times poorer than the aver ...
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It is needless to Google one phantasmic planned project. That project in no way can be used as a yardstick for any meaningful discussion on the levels of development. The average Nigerian is about 4 times poorer than the average Ghanaian according to the World Bank data for 2013. According to the United Nations data on human development, Nigeria lags behind in Human Development Index which measures quality of life. What else do you want?

In spite of all the evidence that Nigeria is behind Ghana, you are hell-bent on holding your jaundiced view with no veritable support. Just provide one impartial evidence from a credible source that Nigeria is ahead of Ghana. Just one!
MOHAMMED LUKEMAN 11 years ago

Your brain is totally skewed in flaunting UN Human Development Index when an average Ghanaian is impoverished and living under very poor conditions that cut accros the lenght and breath of the country. Ghana was just listed a ...
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Your brain is totally skewed in flaunting UN Human Development Index when an average Ghanaian is impoverished and living under very poor conditions that cut accros the lenght and breath of the country. Ghana was just listed as one of the the 15 dirtiest country in Africa and second dirtiest country in West African sub-region. Check that fact out by travelling your major cities of Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, Cape Coast etc. where Ghanaians are inundated with the spread of cholera which number keeps growing by the day. Your clueless government lacks the resources to deal with common cholera in the 21st century.? and you say an average Ghanaian is four times richer than a Nigerian,? Do you yourself believe what you are saying or just got drunk by UN Human Index statistics.?

Look here, India is one of fastest and highly developing country in the world with a GDP in excess of 2 trillion dollar, yet has the world's largest population of almost 900 million poorest of the world poorest population. Indian investments in Ghana today ranks only second to the British and just ahead of Nigerian investments in the third place in Ghana. With your "UN" statistics, is your country any better than these two countries of India and Nigeria who have both the muscle to invest and improve standard of living in Ghana by the number of Ghanaians getting employed by these companies. Better wean yourself of intellectual dishonesty and accept statistics are just for the purpose collating data for western countries to continue to determine how the likes of Ghana should live their lives.

When EPA agreement was thrown at Ghana and its cohorts believers of statistics, you did not have options but to accept it because you were confronted with their manipulated UN statistics, only Nigeria rejected the proposal in the whole 16 sub-regional ECOWAS economic block. It tells you that Nigeria is by far more independent minded than the rest of you in the ECOWAS economic sus-region, and also has the needed muscle to flex which the likes of statistics happy Ghana doesn't have.
Mawuli 11 years ago

You have advertised your ignorance and intolerance of the world around you by your Nigeria bashing. You have the logic of a barbarian.

You have advertised your ignorance and intolerance of the world around you by your Nigeria bashing. You have the logic of a barbarian.
Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

Would any of the agencies of government with jurisdiction over travel an relocation in Ghana know where the patient has been over the past 60 days? On the other hand ask any idiot in any government office including parliame ...
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Would any of the agencies of government with jurisdiction over travel an relocation in Ghana know where the patient has been over the past 60 days? On the other hand ask any idiot in any government office including parliament and they are likely to tell us about the wonders of ECOWAS even if any realized benefit pales in comparison with the loss of national sovereignty.
Rastafara"I" 11 years ago

It seems Nigerians are now more professional than Ghanaians...It used to be the other way round.

It seems Nigerians are now more professional than Ghanaians...It used to be the other way round.
ATOPA PRESIDENT 11 years ago

MAHAMAH IS A JOKER EBOLA IS ALREADY IN GHANA DON'T LISTEN TO THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS NDC PROPAGANDA.THIS ADMINISTRATION SHOULDN'T TURN EBOLA CASES INTO POLITICS AS THEY NORMALLY DO THEIR THINGS.BECAUSE EBOLA DOES NOT KNOW A CO ...
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MAHAMAH IS A JOKER EBOLA IS ALREADY IN GHANA DON'T LISTEN TO THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS NDC PROPAGANDA.THIS ADMINISTRATION SHOULDN'T TURN EBOLA CASES INTO POLITICS AS THEY NORMALLY DO THEIR THINGS.BECAUSE EBOLA DOES NOT KNOW A CORRUPT NDC AND A CLEAN HANDS NPP.I HOPE THE ATOPA PRESIDENT WILL TAKE THIS MATTER SERIOUSLY THAN TO CARRY HIS PENIS ON HIS SHOULDER AND SHOUTING KOTIE ENIO,KOTIE ENIO!.
Baba 11 years ago

You are that fool who is collapsing this country because you cannot say any sensible thing.

You are that fool who is collapsing this country because you cannot say any sensible thing.
ATOPA PRESIDENT 11 years ago

AND WHAT SENSIBLE COMMENTS HAVE YOU CONTRIBUTED APART FROM INSULTING.THE MAN IS USELESS AND CLUELESS.HOW CAN I COLLAPSE THE COUNTRY,AS AM I IN MAHAMAH'S ADMINISTRATION?.HE MUST STOP SHOWING HIS PENIS TO EVERY WOMAN AND GIVING ...
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AND WHAT SENSIBLE COMMENTS HAVE YOU CONTRIBUTED APART FROM INSULTING.THE MAN IS USELESS AND CLUELESS.HOW CAN I COLLAPSE THE COUNTRY,AS AM I IN MAHAMAH'S ADMINISTRATION?.HE MUST STOP SHOWING HIS PENIS TO EVERY WOMAN AND GIVING BIRTH TO CORRUPT CHILDREN WHO WILL GROW UP TO COLLAPSE THE ECONOMY.
Coconuthead 11 years ago

Why do ingrates like you ever occupy space on this earth? I am sorry but this sort of rubbish comes only from scully wags that lack little grain matter under their skulls.

Why do ingrates like you ever occupy space on this earth? I am sorry but this sort of rubbish comes only from scully wags that lack little grain matter under their skulls.
PREKESE 11 years ago

HAHAHA,YOU HAVE A COCONUTHEAD SO THERE IS NO NEED OF WASTING MY TIME ON YOU BECAUSE YOU HEAD IS FULL OF LIQUID{WATER}.

HAHAHA,YOU HAVE A COCONUTHEAD SO THERE IS NO NEED OF WASTING MY TIME ON YOU BECAUSE YOU HEAD IS FULL OF LIQUID{WATER}.
National Patapaa Party 11 years ago

Typical ghanaian doctors, they only know how to run away or go on strikes, VERY UNPROFESSIONAL INDEED AND SHAMEFUL ON TOP!

Typical ghanaian doctors, they only know how to run away or go on strikes, VERY UNPROFESSIONAL INDEED AND SHAMEFUL ON TOP!
Dr Jay 11 years ago

I'm sorry they did run away because we doctors and other healthcare workers do not work in a vacuum.

WE NEED TOOLS TO ISOLATE AND CARE FOR SUCH DEADLY HEMORRHAGIC CASES.
Unfortunately the tools are not here or there.

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I'm sorry they did run away because we doctors and other healthcare workers do not work in a vacuum.

WE NEED TOOLS TO ISOLATE AND CARE FOR SUCH DEADLY HEMORRHAGIC CASES.
Unfortunately the tools are not here or there.

For example, how can we set up isolation spots at Tema General Hospital and other wrong places when the likely points of entry into the country are left open?

Please answer the following questions truthfully:
1. How many of the isolation centers for Ebola have been completed and equipped?
2. Do we have special transport just in case to isolate and transport cases those so called Ebola centers?
3.How many of the 10,000 PPE promised have arrived in the country or have been disbursed?
4. Have we set up areas at the so called isolation centers to disposed off or burry the unfortunate ones or are we going to transport the dead to separate location for burial?

If you cannot answer any of these questions then please STOP blaming doctors because we are not equipped to handle Ebola yet.
Rather blame your politicians both NDC and NPP.

Sorry I'm not a prophet of doom but it is only a matter of time when Ebola will hit Ghana.
For if it is happening to our brothers and sisters in neighboring west African countries then it can happen here at home.
However, the big question is are we prepared?

If we can not manage Vibro Cholera by simply cleaning our filth how can we manage deadly viral hemorrhagic like Ebola? Only God knows!

Note: Ghana has huge wealth but 1% of the population (politicians) have hijacked 99% of the wealth while 99% of the population live on 1% of our wealth.

May be another coup is warranted to clean up these cycles of corruption mess we found ourselves in with both NDC and NPP.
Thank you.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

PLEASE!! My friend is no longer dating our Neighbor’s Daughter called BOLA, even if She had Changed name to TOLA, as far as the “OLA” is still there, IT IS OVER BETWEEN HIM AND HER!!..abeg who knows..(His Heart dey vaca ...
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PLEASE!! My friend is no longer dating our Neighbor’s Daughter called BOLA, even if She had Changed name to TOLA, as far as the “OLA” is still there, IT IS OVER BETWEEN HIM AND HER!!..abeg who knows..(His Heart dey vacant o if u dey interested,SHE MAY BE GOING TO ACHIMOTA HOSPITAL).
Baba 11 years ago

If Ebola comes to Ghana, 70% of the population will go. Why??? We are not healthy at all.... Our doctors to are money seekers not health workers.

If Ebola comes to Ghana, 70% of the population will go. Why??? We are not healthy at all.... Our doctors to are money seekers not health workers.
Kpengson Ray 11 years ago

Doctors and nurses flee from a possible Ebola case? Then we are doomed as a nation!

Doctors and nurses flee from a possible Ebola case? Then we are doomed as a nation!
dead 11 years ago

wake up ghana if it true that a doctor or a nurse is running away from the problem what does it got to do with president.we have long way to go ghana we are full of cowards

wake up ghana if it true that a doctor or a nurse is running away from the problem what does it got to do with president.we have long way to go ghana we are full of cowards
Kane 11 years ago

How?

How?
ebo 11 years ago

Liberia’s Largest Newspaper: Ebola Manufactured By US And Western Pharmaceutical Companies

Liberia’s Largest Newspaper: Ebola Manufactured By US And Western Pharmaceutical Companies
Psk 11 years ago

Got any links for that please?

Got any links for that please?
Fuseini 11 years ago

Let Mahama go & live in Nigeria

Let Mahama go & live in Nigeria
Dr Kankam USA 11 years ago

How many professionals are in the field investigating the case. Ghanaians are jokers. You have to stop boasting because you don't know a thing.

How many professionals are in the field investigating the case. Ghanaians are jokers. You have to stop boasting because you don't know a thing.
ebo 11 years ago

: Ebola Manufactured By US And Western Pharmaceutical Companies

Sat, September 13, 2014

*FRONT PAGE ARTICLE EXPOSES THE FACTS ABOUT THE EBOLA OUTBREAK IGNORED BY WESTERN MAINSTREAM MEDIA

*LIBERIAN SCIENTIST CAL ...
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: Ebola Manufactured By US And Western Pharmaceutical Companies

Sat, September 13, 2014

*FRONT PAGE ARTICLE EXPOSES THE FACTS ABOUT THE EBOLA OUTBREAK IGNORED BY WESTERN MAINSTREAM MEDIA

*LIBERIAN SCIENTIST CALLS FOR LEGAL ACTION OVER THE ORCHESTRATED EBOLA OUTBREAK

*EXPOSURE COMES AS US AND UN SCALE UP THEIR EBOLA EFFORTS IN LIBERIA

The largest newspaper in Monrovia, Liberia, has published a report arguing that the United States Department of Defense and Western pharmaceutical companies are responsible for bioengineering the Ebola virus (the US government owns the patent on the Ebola virus) and for injecting Africans with it through vaccinations.

Titled “Ebola, AIDS Manufactured By Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD? the article by Dr. Cyril Broderick, a former professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Liberia’s College of Agriculture and Forestry, appeared on the front page of the newspaper, ensuring a wide readership as the US government and UN prepare to scale up their Ebola activities in Liberia.

The article could play a key role in shaping the future of Ebola-hit Liberia by exposing the role of the US Department of Defense, pharmaceutical companies and other entities in the current Ebola outbreak.

Broderick makes a strong case for legal action to obtain redress and damages.

Although dismissed by controlled US media such as Breitbart as an wildly accusatory conspiracy theory, the report by Broderick contains convincing evidence suppressed by the mainstream media that the Ebola virus is a bio@weapon, which has been put in circulation.

Broderick’s claims are all the more credible given a raft of recent scandals, which have battered the reputation of the US government and pharmaceutical companies, including new revelations of a cover up by the CDC the link between vaccines and autism and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment .
***jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/cdc-whistleblower-this-is-the-real-smoking-gun/
bo 11 years ago

afriko

afriko
fuck G. 11 years ago

Ghana is hell.Amen You will all die of this ebola.It is in Ghana.So kiss your ass goodbye,and enjoy it befoe it is too late.Run Run RUN.

Ghana is hell.Amen You will all die of this ebola.It is in Ghana.So kiss your ass goodbye,and enjoy it befoe it is too late.Run Run RUN.
Tetteh Klokpe 11 years ago

So our doctors have been going on strike for allowances for no work done? How will they call themselves now? Hmmm God is watching.

So our doctors have been going on strike for allowances for no work done? How will they call themselves now? Hmmm God is watching.
Boss 11 years ago

Please close all our boarders for God´s sake

Please close all our boarders for God´s sake
NOBODY 11 years ago

Just weeks ago, one of the top ranking officers in the Ghana Medical service was boasting about how Ghana had facilities well-equipped to handle the ebola crisis. One can only laugh. How does a country that can't handle simpl ...
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Just weeks ago, one of the top ranking officers in the Ghana Medical service was boasting about how Ghana had facilities well-equipped to handle the ebola crisis. One can only laugh. How does a country that can't handle simple things as providing simple medical care for its citizens be in any position to seriously handle the ebola outbreak? Ghana does not even know how to tackle its bad roads, let alone know how to tackle ebola. The nurses can't be blamed for running away, for the government will be in no position to assure their safety.
sweden boy 11 years ago

HOW COULD YOU ALLOW BOARDS TO OPEN FREE FOR EBOLA PEOPLE TO ENTER THE COUNTRY.

HOW COULD YOU ALLOW BOARDS TO OPEN FREE FOR EBOLA PEOPLE TO ENTER THE COUNTRY.
One -to-One 11 years ago

Very sad.Very sad.The Ghana government has had sufficient time to put in place facilities to be able to safely manage these patients. Mahama's government appears to be asleep at the wheel.

Very sad.Very sad.The Ghana government has had sufficient time to put in place facilities to be able to safely manage these patients. Mahama's government appears to be asleep at the wheel.
Connie 11 years ago

With people like this in the healthcare, Ghana will be in trouble if ebola strike the nation. The disease will spread like a raging wildfire.

With people like this in the healthcare, Ghana will be in trouble if ebola strike the nation. The disease will spread like a raging wildfire.
Steve 11 years ago

Ebola outbreak in Ghana will see the end of mahama presidency

Ebola outbreak in Ghana will see the end of mahama presidency
Gracia 11 years ago

Since okudjeto ablakwa knows everything from irrigation, airport construction, basic and tertiary education, I believe he knows a lot also about Ebola management. He should get ready when the doctors leave the health faciliti ...
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Since okudjeto ablakwa knows everything from irrigation, airport construction, basic and tertiary education, I believe he knows a lot also about Ebola management. He should get ready when the doctors leave the health facilities. A tongu man just similar to bole thiefman, senseless, stupid, noise making and foolish
ummi Danlami 11 years ago

it's not Ebola its ULCER since you can't even detect people sickness u can not differentiate between Ebola and ULCER,who ever post this shit by GOD grace very soon you shall be the one who is goin' to be affected by Ebola.kee ...
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it's not Ebola its ULCER since you can't even detect people sickness u can not differentiate between Ebola and ULCER,who ever post this shit by GOD grace very soon you shall be the one who is goin' to be affected by Ebola.keep calm prince ALLAH will see us through..
Ewe nation 11 years ago

Just release these sick ebola patients into ashanti areas.That will help Ghana alot and Ewes,Gas and Dagombas will be very grateful.The fewer ashantis we have,the better.

Just release these sick ebola patients into ashanti areas.That will help Ghana alot and Ewes,Gas and Dagombas will be very grateful.The fewer ashantis we have,the better.
Dodzi 11 years ago

Shame on you for your criminal comments. We are investigating your real identity. Your name will be released sooner than later

Shame on you for your criminal comments. We are investigating your real identity. Your name will be released sooner than later
EZEKIEL 11 years ago

I had thought Ghana said they were ready to tackle Ebola! Now that a suspected case is around, they STAFF is competing in 100m. dash!!!
What NONSENSE is that ??

I had thought Ghana said they were ready to tackle Ebola! Now that a suspected case is around, they STAFF is competing in 100m. dash!!!
What NONSENSE is that ??
TEE 11 years ago

MAHAAMAYOU ATE INCOMPETENT CLUELESS USELESS STEP DOWN

MAHAAMAYOU ATE INCOMPETENT CLUELESS USELESS STEP DOWN
TEE 11 years ago

MAHAMA is a thief

MAHAMA is a thief
Boama 11 years ago

Sorry, it will not happen by the grace of God.

Sorry, it will not happen by the grace of God.
Hafsat idris 11 years ago

But its no true,the patient doesnt have ebola, he should be re-examined, he is just an ulcer patient, if he had ebola people he leaves with also have ebola........the doctor is just an incompitent fool who needs to go back to ...
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But its no true,the patient doesnt have ebola, he should be re-examined, he is just an ulcer patient, if he had ebola people he leaves with also have ebola........the doctor is just an incompitent fool who needs to go back to school, he just wants to be famous,Ghanians but why?
Suspect Guy 11 years ago

Thanks Hafsat the final result has just come out and rhe find nothing relating my dieases with ebola case.

Thanks Hafsat the final result has just come out and rhe find nothing relating my dieases with ebola case.
Hafsat idris 11 years ago

Alhamdulillah, Im glad, but i dont think that doctor should nve left like that free,your parents should press charges against him,ku shiga court kawaii!!!

Alhamdulillah, Im glad, but i dont think that doctor should nve left like that free,your parents should press charges against him,ku shiga court kawaii!!!
Becky 11 years ago

Oh God help ebola will never come to Ghana .

Oh God help ebola will never come to Ghana .
marshallito 11 years ago

the doctors love thier life ok

the doctors love thier life ok
scientist 11 years ago

Ebola is in Ghana, they just don't want to admit for fear of the economic consequences. Sad that economics trumps saving lives.

Ebola is in Ghana, they just don't want to admit for fear of the economic consequences. Sad that economics trumps saving lives.
Gabbie stone 11 years ago

Ebola in Ghana is no surprise but the suspect being a Nigeria must been sent, i don't believe this our political leaders they might have been paid for it or they all ready know about it...

Ebola in Ghana is no surprise but the suspect being a Nigeria must been sent, i don't believe this our political leaders they might have been paid for it or they all ready know about it...

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