Covid-19 Health Minister Goes to “Rest In Peace” at UGMC Hospital

Social media is wishing good riddance to the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu for the controversy over his Covid-19 status, following recent reports that he may have contracted the deadly Covid-19.

Some commentators have jokingly wished him to “rest in peace”, after denials that the minister had contracted the disease. He was said to be “resting” at the University Of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC).

The Minister has been missing from the public for a while now but on Saturday, June 13, 2020 speculations about him testing positive to the raging disease permeated the media landscape as he was reportedly admitted at the UGMC.

A few hours after the news broke, Broadcast Journalist, Afia Pokua, posted on her Facebook wall that the minister has only taken time off to get some rest and take his diabetes medication.

“Spoke to the minister of health. He says he’s fine and doesn’t have COVID but only needed rest and his usual medication,” she wrote.

However, critics have expressed misgivings about a mere convalescence for diabetes requiring him to be “resting” at the UGMC which is one of the key health facilities used by the government for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.

Curiously, other media reports indicate that the Minister’s wife and children have tested positive to the deadly disease, hence the likelihood of Mr. Agyeman-Manu also having been infected.

Accra-based Starr FM reported that a test was conducted on the Minister after his wife and son were admitted at the intensive care unit of UGMC.

The test proved positive and the minister has been on admission at the same hospital for the past one week, Starr FM reports.

Kwaku Agyemang becomes the second government appointee linked to Covid-19 infection.

About a month ago Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK, Papa Owusu Ankomah tested positive for the virus, but has since recovered.