The government plans to roll out an app to aid Ghana’s vaccine rollout.
The Director-General of the Ghana’s Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Agye, stated that the software was being developed in Ghana.
He said at a news conference on Monday ” We are going to implement a locally built software that enables scheduling and pre-vaccination ahead of your clinic visit.”
he went on to say that “you will get your COVID passport, so everybody will see who has received the vaccine,”
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The Ghana Health Service hopes to use the app’s data for potential decision-making in the near future. “Whatever the world decides on COVID-19, we will have a database locally to be able to respond appropriately including checking if persons who have had positive tests have had vaccinations or not,” Dr. Kuma-Aboagye said.
Ghana also has a COVID-19 tracker software that was designed to aid in the tracking of people who had come into contact with compromised individuals.
The COVID-19 Tracker App uses a shared infrastructure of mobile networks to monitor contacts of people who have become infected with the virus, display where they’ve been recently based on different telephone-related data, and link them to health professionals for immediate intervention.
Ghana received a total of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine on March 2 from the COVAX factory, plus 50,000 doses from the Indian government as a donation and has since vaccinated more than 200,000 people nationwide.
The Government by the end of May, hopes to receive another 2 million AstraZeneca dosses from the COVAX facility.
To date, 220,252 have been registered as having received the vaccination.
Source: ATLFMNEWSROOM
