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  After weeks of apprehension over the fate of Ghanas COVID-19 vaccination programme, the exercise looks set to resume soon. According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), 350,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines would arrive in Ghana Friday, May 7, 2021 aboard a Turkish Airline fight to kick-start the second phase of the nationwide vaccination. "We were supposed to receive the AstraZeneca doses on Tuesday, Unfortunately, there was a connection flight cancellation and so we are expecting...

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AS countries around the world grapple with the deadly third wave of Covid-19 and we witness the horrific devastation across the border, it is easy to forget about other prevalent infections and their damaging impact on countless lives. While millions wait desperately for any brand of the Covid vaccine, there are many who have little awareness of the necessity of routine vaccinations that can prevent common illnesses such as measles and polio. They thus end up endangering the lives of their chil...

The value of vaccination Covid has underscored the far-reaching impact of the jab In the world of healthcare, both prevention, and cure compose of many threads. Today, the value of vaccines can’t be emphasised enough. They not only improve the health of people everywhere, but also create stronger, and more productive communities. Thanks to vaccination against various diseases, some 37 million lives were saved between 2000 and 2019 in low- and middle-income countries. With continued global co...

Haydarov, Anand, Merdekios, Abrar); University of Nigeria ( Obianuju Igweonu); World Health Organization (WHO) Kenya ( Jemimah); WHO Regional Office for Africa - AFRO) ( Okeibunor); WHO Horn of Africa Coordination Office - HOA ( Sam Okiror) "...designed to meet local communication needs with local solutions..." Between 2013 and 2014, the Horn of Africa (HoA) countries experienced a severe wild poliovirus (WPV) outbreak that was attributed to weak social mobilisation, poor outreach to pastorali...

Experts for ensuring routine vaccination during pandemic Lahore May 2, 2021 LAHORE : While immunisation services have started to recover slowly from disruptions caused by Covid-19, millions of children remain vulnerable to deadly diseases in the country, health experts warned on World Immunisation Week, highlighting urgent need for a renewed commitment to improve vaccination access and uptake. “While we focus on critically important vaccines to protect against Covid-19, there remains a need...

+ A management consultant, Mr Ishmael Yamson, has entreated the government not to depend solely on donors and bilateral and multilateral benevolence for vaccines to protect the citizens against COVID-19. He opined that resources to fund the procurement and deployment of the first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines must come from domestic sources and not borrowed funds. According to him, the country needed “to demonstrate that we are ready to help ourselves” before calling for external support...

  Ghana is expected to receive another consignment of over 200,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in May this year. The UNICEF’s Regional Advisor for Health Systems Strengthening for Western and Central Africa Regional Office, Ms Susie Villeneuve, disclosed this, explaining that the vaccine would be shipped from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Ghana, Togo and the Comoros. She said the development was because the DRC did not have the needed systems and structures t...

The elderly people and senior citizens are made to wait for more than an hour due to the slow process of vaccination. — Faysal Mujeeb/ White Star LAHORE: With record 107 Covid deaths in a day in Punjab, mismanagement at the understaffed vaccination centres in the province is adding to the woes of the elderly people. A majority of the centres are understaffed and heavily crowded with people of 50 to 69 years of age. The situation is disturbing at three mega centres of Lahore – Expo Cent...

705 Ghana is expected to receive another consignment of over 200,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in May this year. The UNICEF’s Regional Advisor for Health Systems Strengthening for Western and Central Africa Regional Office, Ms Susie Villeneuve, disclosed this, explaining that the vaccine would be shipped from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Ghana, Togo and the Comoros. She said the development was because the DRC did not have the needed systems and structures ...