The Ashanti regional health directorate of the Ghana Health Service has begun a Covid-19 vaccination exercise, with a call on the masses to get vaccinated against the virus, since the vaccines save lives.
In an exercise, which will last for five days, health officials will visit mosques, schools, churches, markets and houses among others, to carry out the exercise.
Made up of forty-three Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the region, the Ashanti regional health directorate is targeting to vaccinate 88,130 people against the mutating virus.
The directorate has emphasised that getting vaccinated is safer and a more reliable way to build protection, than getting sick from COVID-19.
The vaccination helps protect people by creating an immune response without the potentially severe illness or post-COVID conditions that can be associated with the infection.
Speaking with The Chronicle, Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang, the Ashanti regional health director, disclosed that his outfit has so far vaccinated 1,960,955 people, which represent 53.4%, adding that the number of those who have received at least one dose are 2,654,554 representing 72.4%.
On the relevance of the Covid-19 vaccine, the Ashanti regional health director noted that it pays to get vaccinated because the vaccines are highly effective in preventing the most severe outcomes from a COVID-19 infection.
According to him, COVID 19-vaccines are effective at protecting people from getting seriously ill, being hospitalised, stressing that vaccination remains the safest strategy for avoiding hospitalisations, long-term health outcomes and death.
He urged the public, especially religious leaders and other stakeholders to help in disabusing the myths and conspiracy theories surrounding the vaccines and that it is one of the most effective and efficient means of medication.
