SECOND DOSE: PLEASE DON'T STAY-OFF-HEALTH DIRECTOR BEGS

SECOND DOSE: PLEASE DON'T STAY-OFF - HEALTH DIRECTOR BEGS 

DR. Emmanuel Tenkorang, the Ashanti Regional Director of Health is entreating Ghanaians who participated in the first vaccination against the fight of the global pandemic to as a matter of urgency visit their various centers for the their second jabs. 

The second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise took off in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday, with an advice to those eligible to avail themselves for the exercise. 

Dr Emmanuel Tenkorang, speaking on Silver FM Omanbapa Morning Show said it is targeting those who had received the first jab from March 2 to 9, this year, adding that those qualified to be vaccinated had no reason to stay off.

“The Health Service is appealing to the people to endeavour to go to the centres where they took their first jabs to receive the second dose,” he told the host of the Program, Nana K. Ampratwum.

A total of 250, 000 people in the Region have been vaccinated during the first phase of the exercise. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has designated ten centres for the second phase in the Metropolis, including the Maternal and Child Health Hospital, KMA Clinic, Anwiam Clinic, City Hospital, Sepe-Buokrom Health Centre and Anwiam Clinic Annex (Kejetia).

Others include Moshie Zongo Health Centre, Suntreso Government Hospital, Mater Dei Hospital and Manhyia Hospital. 

The Regional Health Directorate has so far taken delivery of 153, 000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines for the second phase, Dr Tenkorang said. 

According to records from the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Ashanti has recorded a total of 15, 568 confirmed cases, out of which 253 had resulted in deaths with the active cases standing at 35.

Meanwhile, when the Filasco DeGeneral visited some vaccination centres such as the GBC premises, many of the eligible people mostly media practitioners were taking turns to be vaccinated.