Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has wished Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), who is recuperating from Covid-19 a speedy recovery. 

In a tweet, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah said Dr. Dsane-Selby was a passionate and hardworking person who was committed to the national cause. 

He wrote: “I have known Dr. Dsane-Selby since my days as a media practitioner.

” She is a passionate and hardworking person who was supportive in the COVID-19 response programme.

“I wish her and many others who are positive a speedy recovery from Covid-19”. 

I have known Dr Dsane Selby of the NHIA since my days as a media practitioner. She is a passionate and hardworking person who was has been supportive in the covid response program. I wish her and the many others who are positive a speedy recovery from covid-19.

— Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (@konkrumah) June 16, 2020

Dr. Dsane-Selby announced her Covid-19 status in a media interview on Monday, June 15, saying that she was experiencing tiredness, bodily pains and headaches.

Consequently, she contacted a colleague at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research who came with a team to her house to take her samples for a test.

The test result turned out positive, therefore, she went into self- isolation to prevent her from exposing others to the virus.

Dr Dsane-Selby also contacted those she had come into contact with to go for voluntary testing.

She has become the fourth known government official to have tested positive for Covid-19, after Papa Owusu- Ankomah, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu,  and Mr. Anthony K.K Sam, the Mayor of  Sekondi-Takoradi, who succumbed to the disease on Friday, June 12.