Some residents of Accra have lamented the slow pace of the coronavirus vaccination exercise which is taking place in selected districts in the Greater Accra Region.
A visit to the premises of the St. Luke Methodist church in the Ablekuma Central district revealed about 30 people in a queue waiting for their jabs, with 20 persons vaccinated as of 11.40 am.
Some persons in the queue who spoke to Citi News complained about the slow pace of the process.
“The problem is, the nurses should be at least two or three doing this job. We can’t be sitting there all day,” said a man who had been in the queue for hours.
The administration of the Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 Vaccines has been fraught with delays in parts of the Adentan Municipality.
At the Ogbodjo polyclinic, only 75 persons had been successfully inoculated as of 11: 30 am, with persons who joined the queues as early as 7:00 to 8:00 am still waiting in the long winding queues.
“Since 8:30 we’ve been here. We don’t even have numbers yet, and we don’t know what is happening. We’ve been standing and nothing is going on,” one woman said.
One man said he expected a smooth process.
“We don’t want a case where we will come here, spend the whole day here, and then [be told to go home and] come tomorrow too.”
The vaccine shots are to be given out in 11 districts; seven in the Greater Accra Region, and four in the Greater Kumasi Metro, targeting persons at higher risk.
The seven implementing districts in Accra include Accra Metro, Okaikoi North, Ablekuma Central, Tema Metro, Ga South, Kpone Katamanso and Adenta.
Health authorities in the Ashanti Region say over 11,000 people have been inoculated with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine in the region as of Monday, August 16, 2021.
Ghana has taken delivery of 177,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines to vaccinate people who are yet to receive a COVID-19 jab.
The vaccine is the first batch of the Africa Union’s African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) initiative delivered to Ghana.
