From Wednesday, December 14 to Sunday, December 18, this year, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) will commence a statewide COVID-19 immunisation programme for all individuals 15 years of age and older, including pregnant women.
The exercise, which is the fifth iteration of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Days (NaCVaDs) begun in February 2022, aims to give 1.46 million doses of vaccine throughout the course of the four-day campaign.
The Expanded Programme on Immunization's Programme Manager, Dr. Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, stated during a news conference held in Accra yesterday that the campaign's strategies included outreach services, similar to what was done for child vaccines; Camp out in the communities on islands where the vaccination team moved to carry out the vaccinations.
Additionally, modified house-to-house vaccines and immunisation units stationed at medical facilities would be available.
According to him, the fifth NaCVaDs had grown in significance in order to prevent any spike due to the anticipated increase in population during the holiday season.
Dr. Amponsa-Achiano added that the fourth campaign had ended with remarkable results and that NaCVaDs campaigns had proven to be another crucial tactic for quickly immunising a large number of people.
given vaccine doses
Regarding the number of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that had been given out, he stated that as of the end of last month, more than 21.17 million doses had been given out.
Astra Zeneca, Sputnik, Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Janssen are among the vaccine manufacturers.
3.47 million doses were still available as of the same time period after the nation had received 34.04 million doses, of which 30.57 million had been delivered.
Vaccinated individuals
According to Dr. Amponsa-Achiano, more than 12.16 million people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and more than 9.10 million have undergone the entire course of vaccination.
COVID-19 circumstance
The project manager provided information about the COVID-19 situation, stating that there were 171,026 positive patients, 169,556 of which had recovered and been discharged, and nine of which were still active cases.
There are neither severe nor life-threatening cases of the illness. However, he stated that 1,461 deaths had been reported to date.
Misinformation and deception regarding vaccines, pockets of hesitance, and overworked medical personnel who had to deal with various outbreaks, such as Marburg, polio, yellow fever, and monkeypox, are some of the problems facing the immunisation effort.
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From Wednesday, December 14 to Sunday, December 18, this year, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) will commence a statewide COVID-19 immunisation programme for all individuals 15 years of age and older, including pregnant women.
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