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Health News for Friday, February 19, 2021
Source: 3 News
2021-02-19
Designated Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu
The designated Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has told Ghanaians to be available for vaccination against coronavirus infection when the vaccines arrive in the country.
He said that the only way to reduce the infection rate to the lowest level is through vaccination, which is why everyone in the country must accept immunization.
Speaking at a public engagement on Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccination implementation plan in Accra on Friday, February 19, the Dormaa Central legislator said that Ghana has vaccine success stories, therefore the public should not host any fear for the impending COVID. 19 vaccination.
“Fortunately,” he said, “in Ghana, we have success stories to tell with vaccinations in children. Measles, polio, tetanus, we have used vaccines to try to prevent our children from getting them.
‘So now, vaccines shouldn’t be new to us. The only new thing that we are going to add to the battle we have waged since last year is vaccines.
“If we can go to the country and vaccinate everyone, we believe that our problem with Covid-19 will start to decrease,” he said.
COVID-19 vaccines are expected to arrive in the country in March 2021.
In his Update No. 23 on ‘Measures taken to combat the spread of coronavirus’, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said: “Ghanaian colleagues, Update No. 21, I indicated that Ghana is ready to acquire its first shipment of the vaccines COVID within the first half of this year. Since then, a lot of work has been done to achieve this.
“Our goal is to vaccinate the entire population, with an initial target of twenty million people. Through bilateral and multilateral means, we are hopeful that, by the end of June, a total of seventeen million six hundred thousand (17.6 million) doses of vaccines will have been purchased for the people of Ghana.
“The earliest vaccine will be in the country in March. The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) will use its established processes to grant emergency use authorization for each vaccine in Ghana.
“As President of the Republic, I assure you that only vaccines that have been evaluated and declared safe for use in Ghana will be administered.”
