Lockdown - Day 2

Day 2 and Spain has recorded its worst numbers of death, 849. That just leaves one cold. A week ago on my Facebook page, I sent out a message to all health professionals the world over. Some of my friends who are doctors and nurses in the United Kingdom and in the United States, are on the frontline and each day I say a prayer for them. I also just heard that one of my favourite anchors on CNN has contracted Covid 19. You may all know Chris Cuomo the outspoken anchor whose programme is "Cuomo Prime Time". I missed an interview he did with his brother Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier today but I hear he is in good spirits. I wish him a speedy recovery.

Here in Ghana a lot of people have been complaining about how our medical staff do not have enough Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Trust me it is worldwide! At midday a doctor in England was talking about how he had tried to improvise after seeing how the doctors in Lombardy were dressed by buying something similar to a Hazmat suit. He turned up at the health centre where he was supposed to start work and was told he could not wear that. He told them in that case he would not be willing to take the risk to work without it. Do I blame him? No I do not. In fact, there is a growing number of nurses who are refusing to go to work if PPEs are not made available to them.

Breaking news. Just saw on Sky News something different happening in Cotugno Hospital in Naples, Italy. The docotors are wearing not only the jumpsuits but a different mask altogether not the N95 masks. These masks have a full face shield so covers your entire face. Also they have a clearly marked lane with a red and white tape which demarcates the lane leading to the areas of infection and the lane leading to non infected areas. Nurses and other medical staff cannot cross but rather stay in their designated lane. There are even security guards on hand to ensure no-one crosses the line. A nurse prepared an injection and then passed it through a compartment to the doctors who were in the room with an infected patient who was crashing. He did not enter the room where the patient was hence minimising the risk of infection. A doctor who was interviewed said they had fought and fought until they got all their "high tech" PPEs. They are definitely my team of the day.