Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the minister of health, will testify before the parliamentary health committee to address concerns about the lack of infant vaccines in the nation.
Hospitals have had a hard time getting measles, polio, and TB vaccines.
The situation has not improved despite the Ghana Health Service's pledges that it will make every attempt to supply immunisations.
Furthermore anticipated attendees include representatives from the Ghana Health Service, the Vaccine Control Programme, the Ministry of Finance, the National Health Insurance Authority, and the Global Fund.
After his appearance today, the Minister will address the House of Representatives on March 1, 2023, to inform them of the actions being done to alleviate the nation's vaccine shortfall.
There has been a scarcity of vaccines in the Northern Region and other areas of the nation for several months, and a solution has not been found.
Experts have cautioned that if quick action is not done to get vaccinations for child immunisation, Ghana risked seeing an outbreak of paediatric illnesses.
As a result of allegations of a statewide vaccination scarcity, the Paediatric Society of Ghana, for instance, added to this warning.
The Paediatric Society of Ghana claims that the findings are only the beginning of the story because more hospitals are now documenting measles outbreaks.
Due to a lack of critical immunisations, 120 cases of measles were reported in the Northern Area by the end of December 2022.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is aware of the vaccination shortages and blames them on the cedi's wild decline against major trade currencies, particularly the dollar.
The oral polio vaccine 0 (OPV), the measles-rubella vaccine, the meningitis vaccine, and the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine are all given as part of the normal immunisation schedule.
The administration of vaccines includes those for six infectious illnesses that are particularly harmful to infants, as well as those for polio, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenza type B (DPT/Hep B/Hib 1).
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