[ad_1]
Health Minister-designate Kwaku Agyeman-Manu on Wednesday admitted the delay in paying compensation to frontline health workers.
He gave assurances that they would be paid by the end of this week.
Attributing the delay to inconsistent data, the minister-designate said he had tasked managers of health facilities to review the list of those people who had risked their lives to save lives in the fire of the pandemic.
Mr. Agyeman-Manu, MP for Dormaa and former Minister of Health, retained his portfolio during the first term of the Akufo-Addo government, as proposed by President Akufo-Addo to return to the same portfolio during the second term.
He is being selected for the post, as a requirement of the Ghanaian Constitution of 1992, currently used as the main law in Ghana’s governance system.
The Nominating Committee, currently chaired by Joseph Osei-Owusu, First Vice President, recommends to Parliament for approval or persons nominated by the President for appointment as Minister of State, Deputy Minister, Members of the Council of State, Judge Chief and other justices of the Supreme Court and any other person specified in the constitution or under any other law.
During his appearance, the minister-designate, a management accountant, who said he would be 71 this year, answered questions about his performance during the first term of the government led by Akufo-Addo and insisted on the fact that he was fit for the job.
The questions concerned the management of the Covid-19, its previous achievements at the Ministry of Health and announced the measures it would put in place to advance the delivery of health care.
He identified the main challenges of hygiene and sanitation in the delivery of health care in Ghana.
According to the candidate, some $ 100 million allocated to the fight against COVID-19 has been depleted, but nevertheless revealed that a loan facility of $ 120 million from the World Bank, which, on the verge of maturity, would be used by the ministry to strengthen the nation’s fight against disease.
As of February 10, 2021, the Ghana Health Service reports that there are 73,003 confirmed cases of the disease in Ghana, with 482 deaths and 65,583 recoveries.
In a recent screening exercise carried out by the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, it emerged that 17 of 275 MPS members and 151 parliamentary staff had contracted the disease, prompting President Alban Bagbin to declare the closure of House three weeks since Tuesday, February 9, 2021, only the Nominations Committee and Auxiliary Officers continue to work.
Source link
