We need $30m annually to deal with health emergencies - Kofi Gane

Aspiring independent presidential candidate, Marricke Kofi Gane has called on the government to set aside at least $30 million every year to consistently build a more resilient and constantly ready emergency system against future health and other general threats of a national scale.

Contributing to ways the coronavirus could be dealt with in a Facebook video, Mr. Gane said there would be future threats which we must prepare for as a country.

He pushed for the resourcing of our research centres and proactively find frontier leaders in health prevention technologies and to plug into the future of their work, either through investments or by establishing collaboration between them and our own institutions.

Ghana, he suggested must build a truly functional health system, not just a number of hospitals.

He wished Ghanaian health workers a great deal of courage as they confront the outbreak.

He was hopeful the security agencies and health officials will trace all suspected cases.

Our best option he added is in prevention and containment.

To him, we have to retest all cases that tested negative few weeks ago.

He indicated Ghana would surely record more cases hence the need for us to prepare adequately for it.



He said we need to establish a national health protocol with clear and measurable parameters that automatically trigger an interagency command formation and declaration of a national health emergency.

Ghana should also design and institute a national emergency communication and awareness protocol to include text, voicemails, radio, TV, and the rest that automatically kicks into motion from a single authoritative source once an emergency threshold has been breached, he added.