My family is being stigmatised, former covid-19 patient shares ordeal

An ex-patient of coronavirus (COVID-19), Fred Kweku Drah has complained of stigmatisation against  his entire family even though he has been treated and tested negative.
According to him, his neighbours who mostly do not know their status turn to run away from his family when they come out of their house to perform normal activities including buying.
Narrating his ordeal during a press conference held at the Ministry of Information on Thursday, April 16th 2020, he  revealed that he  tested positive on March 17th 2020.
He said he was feeling feverish, took pain killers and decided to visit the Tema Clinic which ran a series of tests which came out negative.
His temperature, however, was above the normal, and the nurses suspected it could be COVID-19.
He was asked to sit at an isolated place and was neglected for about 45 minutes after which he was attended to by a man in PPE who tested him for coronavirus.
He was called at home and asked to dissociate himself from his family after he was told he had the virus.
According to him, the Ambulance went for him the next day and took him to the Ga East Hospital.
He said the doctors and nurses were scared of him from the beginning and they asked him to enter an isolated room with a number to call when he needed something.
He testified that the doctors and nurses did a very good job, the food was good and it came on time.
“I was discharged on Sunday, and they asked me to stay indoors. After my interviews, my wife was being stigmatised. I went to barber my hair and the barber run and left me even after I tested negative, my children were also stigmatised” he said.
He confirmed that COVID-19 was real, urging the public to adhere to precautionary measures.
“COVID-19 is real so please try and obey the lockdown, washing your hands, social distance and all other things. Within a short time, I  was taking water frequently. I am very careful  due to doctors’  instructions given me because I went there,” he said.
“I thought i will die, but it is not like that. I accept that I work  with some Koreans but I cannot tell who gave it to me. Please do not stigmatise others and when you get it talk to people,” he added.
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