Ghana Districts: A repository of all Local Assemblies in Ghana

HEALTH

NORTH DAYI: DCE receives free Covax jab

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of North Dayi, Edmund Kudjoh Attah on Thursday 25th March, 2021, took the jab in the ongoing nationwide coronavirus vaccination exercise.

Date Created : 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Theresa Workartey/ghanadistricts.com

The nationwide exercise is expected to ensure that about 20 million of Ghana’s population gets vaccinated against the deadly virus.

The first phase of the vaccination exercise will target persons ‘most at risk and frontline State officials’. This group includes healthcare workers, frontline security personnel, persons with underlying medical conditions, persons 60 years and above, and frontline members of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.

The second phase would target other essential service providers and the rest of the security agencies.

It includes water and electricity supply services, teachers and students, supply and distribution of fuels, farmers and food value chain, telecommunications services, air traffic and civil aviation control services, meteorological services, air transport services, waste management services, media, public and private commercial transport services, the Police Service, Armed Forces, Prisons Service, Immigration Service, National Fire Service, CEPS Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, and other members of the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislature.

The third phase targets the rest of the general public that is all persons over 18 years, except for pregnant women.

The final phase will include pregnant mothers and persons under the age of 18, and they will be vaccinated when an appropriate vaccine, hopefully, is found, or when enough safety data on the present vaccines are available. Special arrangements will be made for persons with disabilities who fall within these groups.

Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo became the first recipient of a corona virus vaccine from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free for poorer countries.

Mr. Kudjoh Attah therefore entreated all and sundry, especially people within the enclave to get vaccinated when the opportunity avails itself.