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TUC boss backs health workers who ignore Ebola patients

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  • Angel 9 years ago

    I don't blame them either.

  • RAW 9 years ago

    I AM ALSO OF THE VIEW THAT THE HEALTH WORKERS NEED PROTECTIVE CLOTHS FOR THEIR WORK,, HOWEVER THEY SHOULD TAKE NOTE THAT IF THEY RUN TODAY, IT WILL COME CHASING THEM TOMORROW.

  • CHE ANDREW 9 years ago

    It is funny how Ghanaians think. This ebola thing is a resent phenomenon and so no one anticipated that it would spread across the region. If the government has procured some protective wears that is just the beginning and s ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 9 years ago

    Andrew, I have followed the spread of Ebola at the sub region when it started from Guinea and started spreading Eastwards. Any serious government would have started making provisions and preparation if there is any attack. Do ...
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  • ESONG UW/R 9 years ago

    IT IS ONLY A FAT FOOL THAT WILL SEE DANGER AND WILL NOT RUN. EVEN SOME TREES WHEN THEY SENSE DANGER THE 'RUN' IF EBOLA CASE IS IN THE FLAG STAR HOUSE WILL THE PREZ NOT RUN? PLS LET'S DIVERT THE LOAN FOR SMALL GIRLS PADS TO PR ...
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  • bonney ben 9 years ago

    You are a disgrace to mother Ghana and Presby Church.What kind of leader are you?Shame on you.

  • Don Blunt 9 years ago

    Imagine a "brave?", "good Samaritan?", "Presby Church" Nurse, without adequate protective gadgets, attends to this "poor" suffering patient, comes in contact with the virus, and before she can protect herself, attends to ten ...
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  • NiiSa 9 years ago

    GREAT

  • Linda 9 years ago

    Bonney Ben, if you have solutions on how healthcare workers are to protect themselves when no protective gadgets are made available for their use then, I'm ready to hear you out. What do you suggest they should've done?

  • Queen 9 years ago

    Ebola is not yet in the US but hospitals have already put precautionary measures in place including protective gadgets for all healthcare workers. This is virus is not like HIV where people get infected through sex, contamina ...
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  • Bernard 9 years ago

    Linda, please don't be a fool. Think outside the 'box'. Let me ask you a simple question. Your beloved mother/father or both parents including your only adored child, were all struck by Ebola virus. As their doting child an ...
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  • Linda 9 years ago

    Bernard, try putting yourself in these workers shoes. As heartless as this appears, what do you want them to do when the hospitals are ill-equipped & the chances of these workers getting expose from this virus is very high. I ...
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  • Bernard 9 years ago

    Linda, lack of common sense and ignorance is the reason Ghana is suffering. Common sense should have informed you that for ethical, moral and hippocratic oath that doctors take, they are at the forefront of a battle and can ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Your propositions are just plain laughable and stupid at best. The fact that a person is a doctors and has taken a Hippocratic oath does not mean they should put themselves at risk of contracting a disease that is incurable. ...
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  • Phasmida 9 years ago

    Bernard, your dotting child is not mine. I won't die in its place. If my employer provides me with the right tools I'll take extremely good care of him. Otherwise.....

  • NICHOLAS 9 years ago

    The person was not diagnose as having the disease. It was only a suspected case.

    The action of the health personnel only gives weight to the long held view that some people went into healthcare practice not because of the ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Place the blame on the door steps of the managers of the health care system not the poor doctors who do not have adequate preparation to handle potentially dangerous health conditions.

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    This so called stupid revrend has been cheating on poor people why won't he talk uselessly

  • Ryuken 9 years ago

    Mr Asamoah is right. If they don't have protective gear, they must not attend to Ebola patients otherwise the disease will spread throughout the hospitals and will be brought home to their families and communities.

  • Bernard 9 years ago

    KATH Doctors and Nurses would have stolen Ebola if it were a human baby.

    I'm not disappointed however, for TUC Gen.Sec. Kofi Asamoah's support for the nurses action. It rather displays his childish political posturing in ...
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  • Ataa 9 years ago

    I am beginning to believe that this man is definitely going crazy. There is no two ways about it. Very irresponsible statement

  • Bernard 9 years ago

    Useless Man indeed. It is true that you don't need academic qualification to be intelligent.

    I say this with a heavy heart but, say fate is unkind towards Kofi Asamoah or any of his beloved family and were struck with Ebo ...
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  • NTIM jAKARI 9 years ago

    KOF ASAMOAH'S OPEN HATRED FOR THE GOVT WILL SOON FINISH. HE IS PROPHERSEID NOT TO SEE THE NEXT ELECTIONS LET ALONE SELECT THE GOVT OF HIS CHOICE IN ORDER TO GAIN AN APPOINTMENT. THAT IS GODS PUNISHMENT WHEN A LEADER WHO IS SU ...
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  • Bernard 9 years ago

    Useless Man indeed. It is true that you don't need academic qualification to be intelligent.

    I say this with a heavy heart but, say fate is unkind towards Kofi Asamoah or any of his beloved family and were struck with Ebo ...
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  • Samuel Ansah,New York 9 years ago

    So the so called General Secretary of TUC only advice to health workers is to run away from ebola victims? This is the most irresponsible statement coming out from a public figure like Kofi Asamoah.If it is in the US that a ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Using the US an an example to make the point you raised is just ridiculous. You failed to analyze the context of the man's statement.

    In the US, the circumstance under which Mr. Asamoah made the statement does not exist. E ...
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  • Yaro de Mann 9 years ago

    Do we have to tell the govt what to do in a situation like this?

  • ANDROPOV 9 years ago

    KOFI ASAMOAH,
    WAGYIMI PAA. WO YE KWASEAMPANI. I WISH YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS CONTRACT THIS VIRUS

  • Papa Yaw. 9 years ago

    Nothin

  • Isaac Abrefa 9 years ago

    The TUC Boss think that everything is politics,how can you say trained doctors and the health workers can run away because there is Ebola patient at the hospital.Soldiers go to war because they are aware they can be killed,bu ...
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  • Bernard 9 years ago

    God bless you Abrefa. I got scared when Kofi Asamoah made this statement. Innocent lives will be at risk if Doctors and nurses heed his call. He should be condemned in no uncertain terms.

    Thank you.

  • Yaw 9 years ago

    It looks like you did not read what the man said. You only read the caption. It will be foolish for health workers to attend to patients with communicable diseases if they do not have the correct protective outfit.

    Keep i ...
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  • Bernard 9 years ago

    Where is the logic in this? So the doctors and nurses stopped treating or run away from ebola victims and then, the virus stops spreading.? If hospitals cannot treat patients for lack of protective gears and fear of their (d ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    No, the virus does not stop spreading but the doctors also get a chance not to be sentenced to death. Hospitals are established for treating patients. Ebola has no known treatment. Take that!

    The fact that a person is a do ...
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  • Che Andrew 9 years ago

    You have said:

    "It will be foolish for health workers to attend to patients with communicable diseases if they do not have the correct protective outfit."

    When TB started did all governments provide health workers with ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 9 years ago

    Che, why don't you stop all these attacks and go and help Ebola patients in S. Leone and Liberia? Did you read about Aljazeera today? The Usa is thinking about airlifting their citizen from Ebola regions in Africa to the USA. ...
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  • Isaac Abrefa 9 years ago

    Nobody will go to S. Leone or Liberia to help it is the duty of the Doctors to take care of the sick and the Ebola patients.luckly the doctors who run away as said by the TUC boss was only a force alarm.Are they back at their ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Ebola has no known cure. When it spreads to an area, it is only managed. The best way to prevent the spread is to know the dos and the don'ts.

    Relying on doctors to treat it is just a farce. The doctors and nurses who are ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Soldiers go to war with guns, missiles, tanks, fighter jets and other military equipment. They do not go to war based only on their knowledge of war situations.

    Doctors can only treat patients only when they are equipped ...
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  • Isaac Abrefa 9 years ago

    If the Doctors do not have the requisite equipments what do they have to do ? The Leadership should have taken the matter up long ago and not to wait until a patient arrived,for them to ' escape'.

  • Agyaku NYC 9 years ago

    Ebola virus is not a joke,Kofi Asamoah is right Ghana health facilities requires extreme protection. As of now there is no Hospital in Ghana fully equip to handle the fatal virus.
    Ghana government need to close all ports of ...
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  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    Look at this foolish n bribes taker , Kofi Asamoah is an animal

  • sam. 9 years ago

    They health workers should run away if the government fail to supply them with protective equipment.this is becuase no human being in his rigth sense will attend the a patients knowing that he will contract the disease if he/ ...
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  • SATO 9 years ago

    Tuc boss is disappointment to Ghana and Ghanaian worker bcos of utterances

  • Baaba 9 years ago

    I guess this man got his doctorate in madness and anything absurd. Whilst everyone today is so concerned about this deadly disease and praying that we be each other's keeper, look at the way he reasoning.

  • Don Blunt 9 years ago

    What a pity, that you resort to insults instead of being realistic.
    Baaba, just for your information; anyone who gets into contact with such a patient without adequate protective garments risks being contaminated.
    Now, We k ...
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  • Nii Neku 9 years ago

    Mr Asamoah, how sure are you that the sickness is ebola? Why can some of you guys reason before you open your mouths? All os a sudden, you have founs your voice. Swines.Stop spreading such rumours!

  • teye 9 years ago

    this tuc man, kofi asamoah is unift to lead workers if he has such shallow ideas. he is a cheap man for thinking that way. the nation needs patriotic citizens and not foolish people like him to lead workers. no wonder we are ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Yea, Ghana needs patriotic citizens who face elevated risk of death when those who generously dip their hands in the coffers of the republic chill in their luxury funded by the state refuse to procure the necessary health equ ...
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