President Akufo-Addo: Frontier Healthcare Services Ltd Saved Ghana Travel Bans From The West
His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has jumped to the defence of Frontier Healthcare Services (FHS), the Covid Antigen testing centre at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
This comes after three minority lawmakers described the secŕvices of FHS as iffy and announced their decision to picket the KIA from Wednesday, March 30 to compel President Akufo Addo to “curtail” COVID-19 antigen testing at the KIA.
“It is our firm determination to sustain these mass picketing action until such a time that the Akufo-Addo-led government curtails the illegal, unconscionable and extortionist COVID-19 antigen testing conducted by the iffy Frontiers Healthcare Service Ltd”.
The lawmakers are discontented with the $150 fee charged for the test.
But in his 28th Covid address to the people of Ghana, President Akufo-Addo said the presence of FHS at the KIA supplemented the country’s successes in limiting the importation of the pandemic through the airport.
“It is worth noting that the establishment of the COVID-19 testing infrastructure at the Kotoka International Airport by Frontier Healthcare Services Ltd, at its own cost, has been key to our ability to limit successfully the importation of the virus into Ghana through the airport.
“The efficacy of the testing regime at KIA has won global admiration and has been applauded by all those who have undergone its testing. It has been one of the reasons why Ghana was not at the receiving end of several of the travel bans imposed by the West at the height of the pandemic, for which many African countries were affected”.
Frontier Healthcare Services Limited in partnership with the Ghana Airports Limited offer Coronavirus testing at the Kotoka International Airport via a Test Centre within the immediate vicinity.
This is an FIA-Antigen Qualitative Test (Fluorescent Immunoassay), which detects whether there is an acute infection with the virus, and thus the risk of infecting other people they come in contact with. Test results in just 12 minutes.
COVID antigen testing at the KIA for Ghanaians and ECOWAS citizens costs $50 whereas non ECOWAS citizens are charged $150, according to myfrontierhealthcare.com.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
