THE United Nations Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) team in Accra says Ebola patients will not be treated in Ghana despite establishing a Mission in the country.
The head of the UNMEER team, Anthony Banbury told journalists in Accra on Tuesday that Ghanaian were not at risk of the Ebola patients treatment.
Mr. Banbury added that their priority will be to keep all their staff healthy.
“We are putting in place stringent measures and precautionary standards, UNMEER will have an even higher standard…which will be rigidly applied,” he added.
Established just more than a week ago by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNMEER is the first-ever UN health emergency response mission.
It seeks to harness the capabilities and competencies of all the relevant UN actors under a unified operational structure to ensure a rapid, effective, efficient and coherent response to Ebola.
About 250 UN personnel have been deployed, out of which one hundred (100) will be operating from Ghana.
However, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia South, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh had raised concerns about the establishment of the UN’s mission in Ghana claiming they could import the deadly disease into the country.
He argued that the UN could donate monies to the Ebola stricken countries instead of establishing the mission in Ghana to battle the disease.
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