7.5 million Ghanaians have received COVID-19 vaccines so far – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has so far vaccinated 7.5 million people since the COVID-19 mass vaccination program started on 2 March 2021.

The Director of health promotion at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Aboagye Dacosta, said the past few days have witnessed about three million jabs being administered.

Dr. Dacosta is sure that more Ghanaians will be inoculated by the end of 2021.

“I think by December around five million of the doses have been given and we did this in silence. People thought that we were not doing anything but we were just using a strategy.

“Now we declared the month of December as vaccination month and at the time we had only vaccinated five million. As we speak, as of last two days when I checked the data, we had vaccinated 7.5 million. This means that we have actually added between 2.5 to three million jabs…” he said.

“So you can see how our system is effective or efficient. We have a very robust decentralized immunization system, where when we get the vaccines from the districts to the regions we are able to deploy quickly.”

Dr. Dacosta emphasized that the GHS will intensify its campaign strategy in the coming days to get more people vaccinated.

“We started December creating the awareness, and the minister came in, and now we are moving into a campaign mode. I think from tomorrow or the next day, we are moving into a one-week or two-week campaign mode, and we will be using both social mobilization and above-the-line communication.

“So we will be taking the vaccine to people. On Sunday, for instance, we will be going to churches, where there are events like the NPP delegates’ conference, where people are gathered, sports stadia, and other things,” Dacosta said.