90,000 health workers outside Covid-19 epicenters to be vaccinated – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will start from Monday March 22 the vaccination of 90,000 health workers outside the Covid-19 epicenters of the country.

The GHS said it would create two vaccination centers in each district to speed up the vaccination exercise.

On Tuesday, March 2, GHS began immunizing people with underlying health conditions, people aged 60 and over, members of the executive, legislature and the judiciary, as well as healthcare professionals. media in coronavirus disease epicenters.

GHS chief executive Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, in an update on the Covid-19 vaccination program on Sunday, said the Service had so far vaccinated 468,581 people as of March 21.

Of this figure, 1,575 people reported minor side effects, including headache, fever, injection site pain and general body pain.

According to him, out of a total of 260,954 people vaccinated in the Greater Accra region, 126,165 were women and 134,789 men.

In the Ashanti region, of the 195,449 vaccinated, 110,120 were women and 84,729 men.

The central region vaccinated 12,178 people, including 6,182 women and 5,996 men.

The government has started inoculating doses of Covid-19 from AstraZeneca vaccines in 43 districts in the Greater Accra, Central and Ashanti regions, which are considered the epicenters of respiratory disease.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye said no incidents of blood clotting have been reported during his adverse event surveillance investigations. He said that unlike reports of blood clotting in some European countries, Ghana’s vaccination program was well sponsored with over 400,000 people receiving their first vaccine.

According to Dr Kuma-Aboagye, the vaccines were under emergency authorization and were not meant to be administered by individuals.

He therefore urged the public to report anyone selling or administering doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to anyone for a fee for immediate arrest.

Police have so far arrested three people for selling and administering the vaccines without permission.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye said that in the coming weeks, GHS will take delivery of more vaccines from the COVAX facility and the African Medicine Platform.

The government plans to administer 42 million doses of the vaccine to 20 million Ghanaians, with each adult taking two injections to create herd immunity among the population.