Ghana has received her share of the medical supplies including Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) donated to African countries by businessman Jack Ma and his Alibaba Foundation to help fight the Coronavirus outbreak.
Receiving the items at the airport, the Minister of Health, Kweku Agyeman Manu said they will be distributed to the relevant health facilities, with the help of the logistics team from the Military.
“We have started receiving items that we ourselves have procured. There are some we have ordered that will be delivered by close of the week. We expect that apart from these items, we will take into inventory close to 30,000 Personal Protective Equipment, several quantities of masks and even sanitizers. We have registered close to 18 Ghanaian companies who are producing them locally. We are now properly prepared,” he said.
Deputy Chief of Mission at the Chinese Embassy in Ghana, Zhu Jing said who was also present to receive the items, said China will continue to provide support to Ghana to contain the spread of the Coronavirus disease.
“The Chinese government is very concerned about the situation in Ghana concerning the spread of the Coronavirus. Our government has already provided medical supplies to more than 100 countries especially Europe which has been hit very hard…We have sent some medical teams to Italy and other European countries. Right now we are focusing on Ghana and Africa,” he stated.
