Afia Ohemeng
A number of Ghanaian health professionals have written for a second time to the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to suspend it’s ongoing registration exercise following a noticeable increase in the country’s COVID-19 cases.
According to the 221 health workers, should the exercise be suspended it will help reduce the deaths associated with the pandemic.
They group in a letter to the EC said,
“Pause the mass registration, figure out safer ways of carrying it out and prevent Ghana from suffering potentially thousands of deaths or continue with the exercise in this form and be remembered by posterity as a leader who supervised an exercise that allowed for the loss of multiple lives.”
The group of health professionals included general practitioners, nurses and also lab technicians had earlier petitioned the EC cautioning against the rollout of the mass registration for Voter ID cards over fears of COVID-19 death hikes. According to them, the blatant disregard for the Coronavirus safety protocols in the exercise is inimical to the current public health crisis in the country. In their second open letter to the EC, the health professionals say the Commission must roll out safer ways of conducting the exercise to prevent further spread of COVID-19.
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