NDC outdoors COVID-19 response team

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has today announced a team of professionals to guide the party’s efforts and its response to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

The team, according to the Flagbearer of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama, will lead the party’s public advocacy and sensitisation activities on the COVID-19 pandemic. They will also collaborate and provide support to government, upon request, on the fight against the pandemic.

The members of the team who have been drawn from among the rich array of expertise in the party are made up of the following personalities:

1. Hon. Alex Segbefia
   Former Minister for Health

2. Professor Margaret Kweku
   Public Health Expert & Former Dean of School of Public Health, UHAS.

3. Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah
   Surgical Specialist & Specialist in Disaster Management and Infectious Disease Control and Humanitarian Assistance & Professor of Global surgery Ensign, School of Public Health

4. Dr. Vida Yarkong
   Interdisciplinary Medicine Expert

5. Dr. Jehu Appiah
   Senior Medical Consultant & former General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association

6. Mr. Prosper Bani
   Former Minister for the Interior & former Head of UNDP’s Crisis Prevention and Recovery Team for Africa

7. Hon Cassiel Ato Forson
   Ranking Member, Parliamentary Committee on Finance and MP for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency

8. Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akando
   Ranking Member, Parliamentary Committee on Health & MP for Juaboso

9. Hon. Dr. Zanetor Agyemang – Rawlings

Medical Doctor and Member of Parliament for Klottey-Korle Constituency

1. Mrs. Mawuena Trebarh
   Communications Specialist

2. Dr. Jonas Asamoah
   Public Health Expert, Hawa Memorial Hospital, Osiem

3. Dr. Prosper Akanbong
   Physician Consultant and former CEO, Tamale Teaching Hospital.

4. Nana Kofi Quakyi- Specialist in Health Economics and Assistant Professor in Public Health.

The NDC would like to assure the nation that we will continue to avail both our human resource and rich experience in dealing with similar situations to the Government in our quest to overcome the deadly COVID-19 disease.

SIGNED:
Comrade Sammy Gyamfi
National Communication Officer