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President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Frank Ankobea has cautioned government against the propensity of the frontline health workers getting infected with the novel coronavirus due to irregular supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs).

He feared that the frontline health workers may be compelled to stay at home without the Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for the health workers as they will be unable to work when they are infected.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Dr Frank Ankobea pleaded with the government to give them more PPEs as they are running out of them due to the persistent increase of the COVID-19 cases in the country.

“The COVID-19 cases keep increasing and it means that the frontline health workers will use more PPEs, and so we will plead with the government to give us more PPEs because the more we use them, the more we run out of stock," he pleaded, adding that there should be a constant supply of the PPEs to the health workers.

He maintained that the PPEs are very important to them as they have many health workers getting infected.

Enumerating the kind of PPEs the health workers require, Dr Frank Ankobea said that, “the PPEs constitute face masks, goggles or face shields, aprons, gown and a whole lot of components. We have different levels of protection and it sums up to be called Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and so it is not one specific thing”.

He admitted that even though the supply comes to them intermittently, they are rather requesting for a constant supply of the PPEs as they use them every day, stressing that most of them cannot be reused.

To him, the height of the cases is an indication of the fact that Ghanaians are not sticking to the safety protocols put in place by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service.