{"id":55915,"date":"2023-04-08T05:51:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T05:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/08\/ministry-of-health-takes-delivery-of-500k-measles-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T05:51:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T05:51:34","slug":"ministry-of-health-takes-delivery-of-500k-measles-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/08\/ministry-of-health-takes-delivery-of-500k-measles-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Health takes delivery of 500K measles vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ministry for Health has taken delivery of 500,000 measles rubella immunisation\u00a0vaccines.<\/p>\n

The sector Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, led a delegation to receive the consignment at the\u00a0Kotoka International Airport\u00a0on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.<\/p>\n

This follows the first consignment on March 11, 2023, which included Bacillus Calmette\u2013Gu\u00e9rin (BCG), Measles-Rubella (MR), and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV).<\/p>\n

Mr Agyemang-Manu noted the vaccines that were received earlier have been distributed across the country.<\/p>\n

He expressed hope that by the end of the month, more vaccines will be received.<\/p>\n

Ghana, a few weeks ago, experienced a shortage of vaccines for immunisation of childhood killer diseases.<\/p>\n

But Mr Agyemang-Manu assured that steps were being taken for the country to take delivery of children\u2019s vaccines in three weeks.<\/p>\n

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He noted by the end of the next three weeks, a country-wide assessment of several pediatric immunisations will be activated to help address the issue of immunisations in the country against some of the childhood killer diseases.<\/p>\n

He said the present vaccination scarcity in Ghana was widespread and promised to take urgent steps to quickly obtain the vaccines for immunisation.<\/p>\n

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