New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Agyapong, has said that he donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth over $1 million to support Ghana\u2019s COVID-19 efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a tweet shared on Friday, October 13, 2023, Ken Agyapong said that he donated the PPE to major health centres across the country, including the 37 Military Hospital. \u201cDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, I donated PPEs worth over $1 million to major medical centres in Ghana including the 37 military Hospitals,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tweet was accompanied by a video of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, donating some PPE, including nose masks during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to the 37 Military Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He indicated, in an interview after the donation, that he had made the donation to major hospitals in Kumasi, Ho, Accra and would soon be moving to the northern parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Frontier Healthcare Services Limited, the company contracted by the government of Ghana to conduct COVID[1]19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) is reported to have made over $80 million more than the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a report by JoyNews, data from the Airport Company in response to a Right to Information request it filed, showed that Frontier Healthcare Services got $87.5 million from its testing services at the airport ($84 million from arrival testing and $3.5 million from departure testing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government of Ghana, on the other hand, got $6 million from arrival testing and $180,000 from departure testing during the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report indicated that the data from the Airport Company shows that the Frontiers claimed over 90% of the earnings from the COVID-19 testing \u2013 92% of income from arrival testing and 94% of income from departure testing. The government of Ghana got less than 10% of the total revenue from the testing – 7% from arrival testing and 6% from departure testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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