Kintampo Health College gets $30,000 to procure COVID-19 testing machine

A former Municipal Chief Executive for Kintampo under former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration, Mr. Awudulai Razak, has donated $30,000 to the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) in the Bono East Region and the Ghana Health Service to procure a PCR machine to enable it conduct tests for the Coronavirus (Covid-19).
Awudulai Razak’s patriotic gesture follows an appeal by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) for the upgrade of the KHRC to enable it to test suspected cases of the Covid-19.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Director of the KHRC, Dr. Kwaku Poku Asante, said that the centre was liaising with the GHS to order and install the machine for it to begin operating within the next two months.
According to Dr Poku, the KHRC has been useful in testing illnesses and vaccines, including the successful testing of vaccines during the outbreak of Meningitis in the country in 2015.
The Bono East Regional Director of Health, Dr. Adomako Boateng, stressed that testing is crucial in the fight against Covid-19, and that the KHRC would greatly assist in overcoming delays in the release of results.
The Kintampo Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Michael Sarkodie, said the world was under siege with the human race seriously under threat, and called for a collective approach to fight the spread of the virus in the country.

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