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[N] House of Chiefs calls for collaboration with MMDCEs for development
[N] Baby Harvesting: More suspects picked
[N] Police pledge commitment to bringing Sheikh Maikano’s murderers to book
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[N] Desist from starting race ahead of time - Obiri Boahen to NPP presidential
[N] Gov’t announces construction of five interchanges in Ashanti
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2021-03-16

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[ 2021-03-09 ]

Ghanaians to use COVID-19 Vaccination App to book appointment
Going forward, people going for the COVID-19
vaccination in Ghana, would have to use the
vaccination APP to book an appointment or
pre-register before going to the vaccination
centre.

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service
(GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who made this
known said the GHS was going to adopt a locally
developed APP for that purpose.

"We are currently going to adopt a locally
developed APP, which will allow us to be able to
do scheduling, we can do a pre-registration before
you go and vaccinate, we can do appointment system
for you to go and vaccinate to know where to go
and vaccinate, it will generate your COVID
passport for you, so we know all those who have
vaccinated, and the database will be in Ghana and
whatever the world decides, we will have enough
database locally to be able to respond
appropriately and learn from how, including
checking those who have had positive, whether they
have had vaccination or not," Dr Kuma-Aboagye

Dr Kuma-Aboagye who made this known at a press
briefing at Peduase Lodge in the Eastern Region on
Monday [March 7, 2021] said the database will be
in Ghana and it will enable the GHS to be able to
respond and learn accordingly.

He said they are currently doing a test run of the
APP.

Next steps

Giving an update on the fight against the COVID-19
pandemic in Ghana, Dr Kuma-Aboagye said the next
steps in the fight is that Ghana will continue to
pursue additional vaccines for health workers in
other districts and regions for them to be
vaccinated.

As of Sunday night, over 200,000 people had
received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine
in the exercise which started on Tuesday, March 2,
2021.

At the moment a total 650,000 doses of the
AstraZeneca vaccine have been received in Ghana,
600,000 from COVAX facility and 50,000 as a
donation from the Indian government.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye said the figure could even go up
to about 300,000 for the six days exercise as some
of the data were collected on paper due to data
entry delays and enthusiasm from the public to
take the vaccine.

Therefore, he projects that by the time all the
data is entered and synched, an approximate
300,000 would have been vaccinated in the last six
days.

He added that there were plans to acquire
additional Cold Chain equipment including ultra
negative freezers as well as sustain public
education on adherence to safety protocols and
vaccine uptake.

Related article
Active Covid-19 cases in Ghana drop to less than
5000; death toll now 656
Benefits of APP

Elsewhere in some other countries, the use of the
APP alerts the user when their vaccinations are
due.

How the immunization app works:

Once the app is downloaded onto an iOS (Apple) or
Android smartphone, the user enters information
such as bio-data including age and or existing
medical conditions.
The user then receives reminders when vaccinations
are due, following the national vaccination
schedule.
A record of the vaccination is kept on the
smartphone.
The app also provides direct links to the national
immunization schedule and other useful online
information resources [COVID Passport].

Source - Graphic Online



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