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Ghana received the first tranche of coronavirus vaccines yesterday
Ghanaians must put an end to unnecessary conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccines and adopt them, according to former director general of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Elias Sory.
A portion of Ghanaians have expressed concern about vaccines and some have expressed fears of possible adverse reactions if they take the vaccine.
Some have even suggested that taking the vaccines could lead to memory loss and possibly even kill them.
But Dr. Elias Sory said those conspiracy theories are unhealthy for the government agenda to vaccinate the majority of the public.
“It is quite unfortunate that people are not looking at what is happening. We have a disease that is killing us. What people are looking at is more of a wrong way of thinking. Let’s stop conspiracy theories and adopt something that is good.
“If the vaccines are bad, the ones that were used in the testing stage, I would have eliminated them all. Our public health system is one of the best. Many of our childhood illnesses have been eliminated and we have the data. Our structure has been created to deal with whatever comes along … the positive mindset is that we have something that is good and we must accept it. ”
Ghana received an initial tranche of deliveries of the AstraZeneca / Oxford Covid-19 vaccine at Kotoka International Airport on Wednesday.
The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from Covax, an effort supported by the World Health Organization to procure and distribute vaccines for free to poor countries.
“These 600,000 Covax vaccines are part of an initial tranche of AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine deliveries licensed by the Serum Institute of India, representing part of the first wave of Covid vaccines targeting several low- and middle-income countries,” UNICEF said. . , which arranged the shipment from Mumbai, in a joint statement with WHO.
Healthcare workers, people with underlying health problems, the front-line executive, the legislature, the judiciary, and some religious leaders are among the first category of people to receive the newly arrived Covid-19 vaccine.
A statement by the designated Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah stated that Ghana will begin vaccination against Covid-19 on March 2.
