General News of Tuesday, 2 March 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comCoronavirus vaccination: We want to build public confidence - Dr. Aboagye DacostaDr. Aboagye Dacosta is the Ghana Health Service Director of Health PromotionDr. Aboagye Dacosta, Director of Health Promotions at the Ghana Health Service has explained that with all the big names such as the president, his closest staff and heads of the health sector in the country going out to take their coronavirus vaccines, it is a way of imbibing confidence in the public. He explained that as personalities from cross-sectors file out to get vaccinated, it should build some public confidence and encourage public participation and interest in the vaccination process. Speaking with GhanaWeb TV at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital) just after taking his coronavirus vaccine jab, he urged all to be eager to also get vaccinated. So I’ll encourage Ghanaians to go out, when it’s their turn, they should accept and just get the vaccine,” he said. Ghana became the first country in the world to receive the first 600,000 doses of the vaccines from the COVAX facility on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.

Source: GhanaWeb March 02, 2021 17:03 UTC