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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.
Mr Yamson, who is the Executive Chairman of Ishmael Yamson and Associates, told the Daily Graphic in an interview in Accra that using tax revenue to fund the vaccines would ensure flexibility in the receipt and usage of the consignment at a time when there was a global scramble for the vaccines.
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Ghana will be taking stock of the COVID-19 vaccines by close of this week. This is contrary to earlier assurances by government that the vaccines will arrive on Monday, February 22, 2021.
Tuesday, 17:07, 23/02/2021
VOV.VN - In the long term, the nation will take steps to provide free novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for citizens in the same way it offers vaccines against epidemics in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control chairs the meeting
This point of view was widely shared during a meeting held on February 23 in Hanoi among members of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Health experts told the meeting that the AstraZeneca vaccine is being imported into the nation and has been pre-assessed by the World Health Organization (WHO). In principle, this means that the vaccine can be injected immediately upon arriving in the country.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu has disclosed that he is ready to take his COVID-19 vaccine in the full glare of his constituents.