Frontiers Health Services (FHS) has refuted claims of corruption regarding the COVID-19 testing project it handled at the Kotoka International Airport.
According to the organisation, it is aware of the recent media publication of “spurious, mischievous, and false allegations of wrongdoing” said to have been raised by MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa against Frontiers Healthcare Services for its “unblemished, valuable, and enriching administration” of the Airport Covid-19 testing project.
It revealed that it is unfortunate that what ought to be hailed as one of the greatest achievements of the nation during the covid-19 pandemic, has been wrought with negative media onslaught owing to the current politically polarized nature of the country.
To this end, the FHS reckoned it worthy to rebut these malicious allegations.
“FHS, by this rejoinder, hereby debunks and rejects these allegations in its entirety as baseless, unsubstantiated and a malicious fabrication concocted and propagated by persons whose sole agenda is the promotion of their political interests and self-aggrandizement.”
Frontiers Health Services
Elaborating on the terms of awarding the contract, FHS indicated that at the outset, the reopening of the air borders of the country during the Covid 19 pandemic was made possible by the introduction of innovative health solution systems designed by Frontiers Healthcare Services Limited, with the focus on arresting the potential inflow and onward transmission of the ravenous covid 19 virus to the resident population of the country.
It noted that Frontiers Healthcare Services timely developed and introduced decisive and functional interventions that addressed the desperate urgencies and health hazards resulting from the prevalence of the pandemic which threatened lives.
“The crucial and significant mandate of Frontiers Healthcare Services at the time was to provide critical solutions aimed at restoring safety for international travels and economic activities by providing a reliable, effective, and efficient rapid health screening system at the country’s borders for all travellers.
“This scientific intervention required sacrifice, commitment. It required humongous expenditure and deployment of huge resources in an emergency circumstance under an extremely urgent basis.”
Frontiers Health Services
Furthermore, FHS expressed that the intervention required urgent mobilization of capacity and capability from within and outside the country in a manner unprecedented, not only within the country, but at the time, even globally.
To this end, it explained that the sole objective was to save lives by limiting the spread of the killer virus through migration.
Additionally, FHS revealed that of all the “frivolous, scandalous, vexatious, ill-founded, and malicious allegations” that have been made about the project, the most “preposterous, absurd and ridiculous” revolves on the assertion that FHS enjoys some form of support from the government.
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Frontiers noted that it would have ignored that “laughable insinuation” which originates from the imagination of these “anti-government, anti-progress, anti-people, peddlers of hate and merchants of acrimony”, but for the inference that the public may draw such unsubstantiated allegation.
“Accordingly, FHS would like this opportunity to state categorically and with every sense of responsibility that it has no connection with any official of the government, whatsoever.
“FHS, hereby expressly refutes and rejects, in the strongest terms, any suggestion or insinuation, that it has any connection, affiliation or relationship with any member of the government of the Republic of Ghana. FHS, therefore, without any reservations, whatsoever and howsoever, hereby expressly denies and refutes any allegation of government patronage.”
Frontiers Health Services
Furthermore, the group emphasized that there is no iota of truth, whatsoever, in any of such suggestion.
It explained that the allegation is plainly “mischievous, unwarranted, and conjectural”, and derives its origin from those whose motivations are driven by a disposition to disparage an outstanding intervention that has saved lives.
“Those that are responsible for this inglorious, disgraceful and unfounded denigration must, in the light of its huge success, feel themselves sufficiently discomfited to resile from the hopelessly embarrassing spectacle that they have now made of themselves.”
Frontiers Health Services
Moreover, FHS underscored that at the time of the contractual relationship between government and FHS, there was a global pandemic that was ravaging the entire nation and destroying the nation’s economy in a manner unprecedented in history.
In light of the situation then, FHS stated that it would be wrong for the government, at the material time and circumstances or at any other time for that matter, to be engaged in a project with an objective to make money off “hapless” travellers coming into the country who were being screened to save life.
“The primary preoccupation of the government of the Republic of Ghana at the time was to create and sustain a healthy and conducive environment that will facilitate easy and affordable international travel opportunity and to get the general economy back on track! As a matter of fact, the contractual relationship between FHS and the Government of Ghana was regulated by a duly executed contract which was robustly negotiated by world class professionals on either side.”
Frontiers Health Services
Meanwhile, FHS highlighted that those who have raised “needless, unsubstantiated controversies through distortions, fabrications, lies and half-truths” being propagated to denigrate a world-class intervention that saved thousands of Ghanaian lives must now hang their heads in shame.
“This fellow by whatever name he is called has done a huge disservice to those who benefitted from the project; those whose lives were saved by the preventive action of comprehensive the testing mechanism and processes, and for the nation of Ghana as a whole.”
Frontiers Health Services
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