Reports making runs in the news suggest that Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby, CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority has tested positive for Covid-19.
Graphic online reports that Her test results came on Sunday, June 14.
In a short comment on the issue Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby said; as quoted;;
She started experiencing tiredness, body pains and headaches and after contacting a colleague at the Noguchi Medical Research Institute, “a team came to the house and tested and I tested positive.”
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“I live with my mother. Luckily, she tested negative and so did the house help.
So I immediately self-quarantined,” she told Accra-based radio station, Asaase Radio
“I’m fine. If feels like a bad bout of malaria. I just felt tired, quite a lot of body pains, muscle ache, headaches at the beginning but not anymore,” she said.
Dr Dsane-Selby said she has contacted all those she came into contact with over the last few days “and they’ve been for testing, and as far as I’m aware, they’re negative.”
This comes shortly after Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu tested positive for the virus.
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