Thirty percent of Covid-19 patients on admission at the Ga East Municipal Hospital are on ventilators and must be assisted to breathe.
Additionally, more than fifty percent (50%) of all Covid-19 patients on admission there are classified as having severe symptoms.
But the most harrowing of the statistics is that people die of the virus every day at the Hospital.
These are the revelations of a nurse of the Hospital who is afraid that things will soon get out of hand at the Hospital.
Already, the nurse says, the Hospital is overwhelmed by the inflow of patients, saying: “Now the Virus is trying to let us know how severe it can be. Now the cases that are coming are young folks: it is not about your age, or you have a condition or not. We are pleading with the public to observe the safety protocols. Now we are the only hospital admitting so those hospitals like Nyaho Clinic and Korle-Bu are no longer taking patients”.
Speaking to Accra-based 3FM on condition of anonymity, the nurse lamented that 70 percent of the cases are coming from the communities and not from travelers entering Ghana.
It says that the Hospital has categorized caseloads to deal with the onslaught of the virus which experts have said now kills three times quicker than the first wave. “Now we have mild, moderate, critical and severely ill cases and now those who are severe they are more than 20 percent; critically ill more than 20 percent and those who are severe more than 50 percent and most of these people of the severe cases are on oxygen. This is getting out of hands,” the terrified nurse lamented.
According to the nurse, the new wave of Covid-19 admissions at the Hospital started three weeks ago and has since been spiraling out of hand.
“People are dying in their homes but because they don’t have any idea about the condition they let it go and take it as if normal death. We are pleading because now those we have in the facility about 30 percent are on Oxygen fighting for their lives,” noted the nurse.