A statement issued by the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira further introduced the various health institutions to a private supplier of the PPEs .
But speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Opoku Prempeh criticized government’s directive, saying, “this is an embarrassment to the government and the early they come out to explain issues, the better it is for their own image.”
“This is a government that believes in propaganda and does not believe that even in the matters of health, there is the need to be factual and truthful,” he added.
The Manhyia South legislator questioned why the Ministry of Health contracted a private supplier to do the distribution when it could have taken the initiative to do so.
“If the Ministry of Health can write to various hospitals and direct them to a supplier …why can’t the Ministry order it and supply to the Hospitals? There is something shady about the whole thing,” he asked.
“Can you give me an example of anywhere in the world where in a national emergency, a government will write to individual hospitals and clinics to buy equipment and say we will refund later? Why would government then not acquire the whole stock and distribute as it deems necessary and pay later?” he quizzed.
