The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Ghana

A video interview with a researcher based in Africa discusses the difficulties faced during the pandemic and the possible solutions to overcome them.

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10 Nov 2022

A video interview with a researcher based in Africa discusses the difficulties faced during the pandemic and the possible solutions to overcome them.

In this video interview, we asked Samuel Agordzo, a biomedical research assistant at the Department of Molecular Medicine, KNUST-Kumasi in Ghana, to shed light on the challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He reports about pressure on personnel and equipment, backlogs of samples, high costs, and unavailability of reagents for testing.

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