The government of Ghana is set to distribute 3.6 Million Ghana-made masks government to help fight against coronavirus in Ghana.
According to the government, they will start the distribution of the locally produced nose masks on Wednesday, 8th April 2020.
This was made known to the public by the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman during a press briefing on COVID-19.
“The President is making all efforts to resource the Ministry to ensure that we have adequate numbers of protective equipment. In his speech, he talked about taking the opportunity of the crisis to build local capacities to do some of these things at home.
As I speak, the Minister of Trade has selected five [local firms] to sew 3.6 million nose masks. They will start delivery from tomorrow. We will take delivery of 150,000 each day and within the next seven days or so, the whole country will be flooded with these masks, especially for health workers.”
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman said.