300,000 people vaccinated to date – Ghana Health Service

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has, in one week, vaccinated 300,000 people since the start of the Covid-19 mass vaccination program on March 2, 2021.

According to GHS Director General Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, “We intended to vaccinate 570,000 people in the first phase of the exercise, but we passed the 70% threshold in one week.

“The segmented groups of people who received doses of AstraZeneca vaccines were health workers, people with underlying health conditions, essential service providers, people aged 60 and over, as well as members security agencies, the executive, the legislature and the judicial branches of government and the media. “

Dr Kuma-Aboagye announced this at Peduase Lodge in the Eastern region, in a media update on Monday, after a three-day Cabinet retreat.

He appreciated the media’s efforts to publicize the vaccine, which helped Ghanaians get the vaccine on their own.

The government of Ghana received its first batch of Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, as part of the Global Access (COVAX Facility), on Wednesday February 24, 2021.

It is also making frantic efforts to secure cold chain equipment capable of storing vaccines at freezing temperatures.

The head of the GHS announced that a locally developed application would soon be launched to facilitate the appointment and registration of people on the electronic database system in order to speed up the vaccination program.

The mass vaccination exercise will continue until the end of October, this year around 20 million Ghanaians are expected to be vaccinated although the government’s ambition is to vaccinate the entire population.