[ 2021-03-10 ]

Ghana to take delivery of 17,600,000 vaccine doses by June
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says Ghana
will take delivery of 17,600,000 doses of COVID-19
vaccines by June 2021, with more to come in the
year.








Delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA)
in Accra on Tuesday, he said a total of 262,335
Ghanaians had received their first dose of the
COVID-19 vaccines as at 1030 hours on March 9,
2021.

He said the Government was working hard towards
realising its goal to vaccinate 20 million
Ghanaians and called for the support of all.

The president urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to
get involved in the ongoing public education
campaign on the coronavirus vaccination programme,
saying “…Together, with strict compliance with
the safety protocols, is what will allow us to
open up our country again and embark on the quest
to restore normalcy to our lives and
livelihoods."

He said the Government was collaborating with the
private sector to establish 14 medical waste
treatment facilities across the country to ensure
the safe and proper disposal of medical waste such
as vials, needles and syringes being used in the
coronavirus vaccination exercise.

President Akufo-Addo said locally, 14,600,000
pieces of Personal Protective Equipment had so far
been produced for health workers, students,
teaching and non-teaching staff of tertiary and
secondary educational institutions.

He said the Government would continue to invest in
the health sector, and recruit more professionals
to improve healthcare delivery in the country.

He expressed gratitude to all frontline healthcare
workers for their devotion to duty and sense of
patriotism, saying the pandemic had emphasised the
need to expand access to healthcare for every
Ghanaian, irrespective of location.

The President said, last year, 33 major health
projects were approved for implementation at a
cost of €890 million.

“Key amongst them are the Koforidua Regional
Hospital, Tema General Hospital, the Nephrology
and Urology Centre at Korle-Bu, Redevelopment of
the Effia Nkwanta Hospital into a Teaching
Hospital, and the Construction of a new Regional
Hospital at Agona Nkwanta in the Western
Region,” he said.

He stated that electronic medical records system
(E-Health) deployment was currently underway,
following its implementation in key health
facilities like Korle-Bu, Komfo-Anokye, Ho, Tamale
and Cape Coast teaching hospitals, and several
district hospitals in the Central Region.

President Akufo-Addo said the Upper East, Upper
West, and Bono regional hospitals would go live on
the e-health platform in the next five days.

Source - GNA

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