The Volta Region on Friday 15th May 2020 recorded its first Covid-19 death
The death, which was recorded at the local Treatment Centre in Ho, involved a 60-year-old woman who had returned from Accra two weeks ago.
The woman was said to have visited the Ho Teaching Hospital with difficulty in breathing and fever for three days with reduced level of consciousness.
The deceased, who was getting weaker, died five days after being diagnosd and admitted at the Volta Regional Covid-19 Centre on May 14, 2020.
Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, in a statement said the deceased had underlying conditions.
He said the deceased had suffered a Cerebro-Vascular Accident (CVA) few years ago and also was also diabetic.
“On examination, she was febrile (40.0 °C), not pale and anicteric with a Glasgow Coma Score of 11/15. She had a respiratory rate of 28cpm with Bronchial Breath Sounds and coarse crepitations bilaterally.
“Oxygen saturation was 86% on room air. The blood pressure was 100/70mmHg, Heart Sounds I &II heard with no other sounds. There was residual weakness of the right upper and lower limbs,” the statement said.
The statement further mentioned that initial diagnosis of severe pneumonia, Diabetes Mellitus type-2 and CVA with residual weakness was made but results received from the University of Health and Allied Sciences Laboratory for Covid-19 after some hours confirmed the deceased as positive for the covid-19.
The regional minister said the deceased was clinically managed in conformity with the established clinical protocols for the various disease conditions, psychosocial support given to the family of the confirmed case and that all contacts and appropriate burial procedures currently underway.
Meanwhile 39 staff including 10 doctors, 28 nurses and an orderly have been quarantined while contact identification, listing, tracing and testing is ongoing.
He said the Emergency Unit of the Ho Teaching Hospital has since been fumigated.
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