Mybrytfmonline.com has gathered that, health facilities in the Eastern regional capital, Koforidua, have received some quantity of vaccines amid nationwide shortage of the vaccines against polio, hepatitis B, and measles for many months now.
Nursing mothers and babies are turned away by health facilities as a result creating disturbing situation for health of thousands of infants who require to be immunized.
Ghana Health Service blames the shortage on depreciation of Ghana’s currency, the cedi which is making it difficult for the debt restructuring economy of the West African country to procure the vaccines.
Already, over 120 misseals cases have been recorded among children in parts of the country.
The Pediatric Society of Ghana warned childhood diseases could quickly spread if the vaccines were not soon made available.
The Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu on Tuesday March 7,2023 appeared on the floor of Parliament to assure that efforts were underway to import the vaccines for distribution to health facilities.
However, the New Juaben North Municipal Director of Health, Nana Yaa Konadu told Journalists same day that, her directorate has recently received some quantity of the vaccines for distribution to health facilities in the municipality.
It is not clear where the vaccines came from either from the ministry of health or old stock from the medical stores of the Regional Health Directorate.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
