Several vaccination centers in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality have stopped working due to a shortage of the Johnson and Johnson vaccines three days after the exercise started.
Residents who trooped to centers to receive their jabs are being turned away and have expressed their disappointment over the development.
A resident who spoke to Citi News at Saki Bediako said, “I got here around 6:000 am yesterday [Wednesday]. There was a long queue here. We were given numbers, I was the 43rd in line. As of 2:00 pm, I had still not had my turn, only to be informed that we should come the next day. I got here today [Thursday], and there is no one here. I don’t know what to do.”
“I got here very early this [Thursday] morning only to be told just now that they have run out of the vaccines,” another lamented.
The Kpone Katamanso Municipal Health Director, Dr. Esther Priscilla Biamah Danquah, blamed the shortage on a high turnout.
According to her, all 9,700 persons who were targeted to receive the vaccines have already received their doses.
She has however given the assurance that alternative arrangements have been made for an additional 1,000 doses for onward distribution to vaccination centres within the Municipality.
“We were overwhelmed by the numbers, but we have made provision for additional vaccines, and so we are going to distribute to the various sub-municipalities.”
