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Health workers in the central municipality of Dormaa have received injections of the COVID-19 vaccine after the start of the exercise this week.
The exercise, which began on Thursday, March 25, 2020, covered just over 100 health workers, as well as prominent personalities, including; The photographs were taken by Mr. Drissa Ouattara, Dormaa Central Acting Municipal Chief Executive Officer Odeneho Akosua Fima Dwabeng II, Supreme Queen Mother of the traditional Dormaa area and Superintendent Boakye Ansah, Dormaa Municipal Police Commander.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Dormaa Ahenkro, Stephen Ameyaw Nyarkoh, Dormaa Central Municipal Health Director, stated that the exercise was carried out in the five sub-districts of the municipality, where vaccination centers were set up. . so that health workers in the area get vaccinated.
“The objective of the divisions was to avoid the situation, where all health workers from different parts of the municipality would have to go en masse to a vaccination center of the Health Directorate to receive their vaccines,” he added.
Ameyaw Nyarkoh said that a total of 805 health workers in the municipality were expected to be vaccinated by the end of the five-day exercise.
The Health Director said that the start was affected by a technical problem and some challenges, as the system used to process people’s data was slow.
He said the process affected the pace of the exercise at the Center in the Directorate of Health and said officers were carefully monitoring the situation to make informed decisions and communicate with the other sub-districts with which it works.
Mr. Ameyaw Nyarkoh stated that the challenge had already been mentioned to ICT officers in national and regional offices to inform them to act and find solutions that can stabilize the system for effective and efficient performance.
He added that while a lot of misinformation about the vaccine had spread in the area, “people had visited the Centers with anxiety and despair to ask if they could get vaccinated.”
The public will be informed when enough vaccines are received from the national headquarters across the regions and will be vaccinated accordingly, he added.
Mr. Ameyaw Nyarkoh stated that the exercise would be implemented in phases to include other sectors of the population, including; the media and security officials said the vaccination was free and warned members of the public to report individuals who approached them individually on the grounds that they were authorized to vaccinate people.
Shortly after being hit, Drissa Ouattara, Dormaa Central’s municipal executive director, urged people to take inspiration from the actions of the president and other high-ranking government officials to shoot.
“I’ve taken mine and I’m not feeling bad at the moment.”
— GNA
