The first shipment of the oral polio vaccine, measles-rubella vaccine, and BCG vaccine has been received by the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health (OPV).
This occurs just after sector minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu informed the country on the floor of Parliament that the vaccines will be shipped.
11/03/23
Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service receive first consignment of Measles vaccines, BCG vaccines and Oral Polio Vaccines.
Distribution to various regions and facilities underway.
More vaccines expected in Ghana in the coming weeks from multiple sources. pic.twitter.com/TpCSvVD3m2
— Ministry of Information (@moigovgh) March 11, 2023
“Mr. Speaker, it is a very serious public interest issue, the assurance I will give and I can give for the first time in the chamber here is that this will not happen again,” the Dormaa Central Member said on Friday, March 10.
“I will advise that you will help me in my advocacy to get adequate funding for vaccines, even the health insurance budget. So when we meet with committees, they have always been talking about it, and even in the chamber, it has come up that if Parliament approves adequately for us and we always have our budget well we will be able to supply. I assure you that whatever challenges happened I don’t think we are going to face these challenges any longer.
“I can stand here and assure the House that within two weeks or three weeks we will get vaccines, even probably before that. I can’t get my hands on a specific date but probably even before that, we may get the vaccines that we are talking about. Throughout the period we have made 6.4 million dollars equivalent to UNICEF who supplies us the vaccines.”
On March 11, the delegation to welcome in the consignment was led by the Director-General of the Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who was standing on the tarmac of Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
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