Some Ghanaian production companies have commenced the production of Personal Protective Equipments, PPEs in the country.
Minister of Trade, Alan Kyerematen, on Saturday, April 11, 2020, paid a working visit to some four Ghanaian garment manufacturing companies tasked to produce PPEs in Accra.
The government of Ghana in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic selected these companies to produce PPEs for the frontline health workers leading the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic.
The companies are Dignity DTRT, Sleek Garments, Cadling Fashions, and Alfie Designs Limited.
They are to produce among other things, face masks, medical scrubs, hospital gowns and headgears using fabrics from ATL, Volta Star Textiles and GTP.
The Trade Minister on his visit encouraged both management and workers of the companies to adhere to the World Health Organisation’s preventive protocols and expressed the gratitude of the government to them for supporting the fight against this global pandemic.
Government set to take delivery of 3.6m locally produced masks
Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu in a presser on April 7, 2020, indicated that the government has selected some companies to locally produce some personal protective kits as announced by the President.
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The Ghanaian companies are to produce a total of 3.6 million PPEs which will be distributed across the country.
“The President is making all efforts to resource the Ministry to ensure that we have adequate numbers of protective equipment. In his speech, he talked about taking the opportunity of the crisis to build local capacities to do some of these things at home. As I speak, the Minister of Trade has selected five [local firms] to sew 3.6 million PPEs, nose masks. They will start delivery from tomorrow. We will take delivery of 150,000 each day and within the next seven days or so, the whole country will be flooded with these masks, especially for health workers.”
