Health Directorate in Eastern region warns heads not to speak to media on Coronavirus

All Heads of Health facilities as well as District and Municipal Health Directors in the Eastern Region have been given a stern warning not to engage the media in discussions on COVID-19.

Media personnel in the Eastern Region have always had it difficult getting in touch with officers at the Regional Directorate to access information ever since the pandemic broke out in the Region.

In attempts to get authentic information on COVID-19 updates, Journalists in the region resorted to obtaining information from District Health Directors since they are even the direct sources of news as far as the record of the COVID-19 is concerned.

Realising this, the Regional Health Directorate, which has been stingy with updates on COVID-19 cases, have written a letter threatening all Heads of Health facilities and District and Municipal Health Directors not to engage the media again else they "will have themselves to blame."

The letter, sighted by Ghanaweb and signed by the Regional Director of Health, Dr. Mrs. Alberta Bedjabeng Biritwum-Nyarko, wrote, "the recent spate of media engagements that have set our teeth on edge are one too many and must stop with immediate effect. Anyone found to have given any information to the media on COVID-19 without the express permission from the Regional Director of Health Services will only have him or herself to blame."