The Volta Region yesterday recorded its first COVID-19 death at the local Treatment Centre in HO. The deceased, a 60-year-old woman who returned from Accra two weeks ago, visited the Ho Teaching Hospital with difficulty in breathing, fever for three days and reduced level of consciousness. She was noticed to have been progressively getting weak prior to her presentation at the Teaching Hospital and passed on after five days on admission at the Regional COVID -19 Centre on May 14.
Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa, in a statement copied to the GNA, said the deceased was a known diabetic who had suffered a Cerebro-Vascular Accident (CVA) a few years ago. The statement said the patient was clinically managed in conformity with the established clinical protocols for the various disease conditions, psychosocial support given to the family of the confirmed case and all contacts and appropriate burial procedures currently underway”.
The Regional Minister said 39 staff including ten doctors, 28 nurses and an orderly were immediately quarantined as a precautionary measure after varying levels of exposure while contact identification, listing, tracing and testing was ongoing. He said the Emergency Unit of the Ho Teaching Hospital was evacuated and shut down for 24 hours for fumigation.
