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Scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines a global challenge; government will continue to explore – Okoe Boye

Nii Larte LarteybyNii Larte Lartey
June 15, 2021
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The government of Ghana has acknowledged the difficulties in acquiring COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate a chunk of the population.

It says the scarcity of vaccines is not a peculiar challenge to only Ghana, but other countries across the globe and Africa in particular.

In the wake of the scramble for vaccines for the COVID-19 inoculation, the government has promised to do all within its reach to obtain the jabs for the second phase of the country’s vaccination exercise.

Currently, health authorities say, they are in talks with other European countries while exploring other feasible options to get vaccines for the country.

“What is happening to Ghana is a global issue. So what we are doing is that, this government is engaging directly with other European countries who have stock of AstraZeneca and are not deploying them that much. So we will continue to explore”, a member of Ghana’s COVID-19 response team, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye said on The Point of View on Citi TV, on Monday night.

He however could not give timelines.

According to him, “it will be difficult to speak and state the specific date because, with this Africa platform that we are using and the direct Russia -Government engagement people are talking about, they tell us that it will take six or 12 months before the vaccines will come and remember in a year, a lot can happen.”

Ghana took delivery of 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX facility in addition to  50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from the Indian government and 165,000 from MTN for its mass vaccination program.

The country has since been struggling to get more vaccines to immunize its 20 million target of the population.

It has however emerged that the government is using the services of middlemen to procure some of Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccines but at a higher cost of US$ 19 other than the original factory price of US$ 10.

The move has not gone done well with some stakeholders including the Minority in Parliament, who have called for an abrogation of the procurement deal.

But the former Deputy Health Minister says the government cannot simply be faulted given the situation regarding the supply of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.

“If we were a lazy government, we would just go to sleep and wait for COVAX to say we should come for the vaccines as they did with 650,000 doses.”

“As we speak, COVAX can’t tell us when we will get the next consignment. There are severe supply constraints globally, because of what happened to Serum Institute, the biggest manufacturing plant in India”, Dr. Okoe-Boye maintained.

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