Kwaku Agyeman Manu, the health minister, has been asked by the parliament to testify before the house and respond to inquiries regarding the nation’s current vaccination shortages.
There has been a shortage of vaccines in the Northern Region and other areas of the country for the past few months, and a solution has not been found.
READ ALSO: robots to do 39 of domestic chores by 2033 says experts
The Chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee is concerned about the worrying situation and feels it is necessary to bring the Minister of Health and other agency heads to an urgent meeting on Tuesday, February 28.
“I have the direction of the Chairman of the Committee on Health to invite you to an emergency meeting to brief the Committee on the cause of vaccine shortage in Ghana and the measures being put in place to address the situation, on Tuesday, 28th February 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the Committee Room 1&2, New Administration Block, Parliament House,” the clerk of Parliament’s Health Committee wrote in a letter to the Health Minister and copied to the heads.
“The Committee also requests the presence of the following institutions’ heads and relevant officers: the Ghana Health Service, the National Health Insurance Authority, the Global Fund, the Ministry of Finance, and the Vaccine Control Programme.”
Source: CITINEWS
