Ahead of this year’s World Polio Day on October 24, the Rotary Club Accra- Airport has organized a breakfast meeting in Accra to raise funds in support of the eradication of the disease. Proceeds from the fundraising would support the Polio Plus Fund, through which Rotary International, with its international…
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A management consultant, Mr Ishmael Yamson, has entreated the government not to depend solely on donors and bilateral and multilateral benevolence for vaccines to protect the citizens against COVID-19.
He opined that resources to fund the procurement and deployment of the first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines must come from domestic sources and not borrowed funds.
According to him, the country needed “to demonstrate that we are ready to help ourselves” before calling for external support.
Mr Yamson, who is the Executive Chairman of Ishmael Yamson and Associates, told the Daily Graphic in an interview in Accra that using tax revenue to fund the vaccines would ensure flexibility in the receipt and usage of the consignment at a time when there was a global scramble for the vaccines.
Ghana became the first country to receive a delivery of Coronavirus doses from the global effort to boost vaccine access after a plane landed Wednesday with 600,000 AstraZeneca shots.The immunization help arrives days after President Biden pledged US$ 4 billion to the multilateral pact known as Covax, breaking with the Trump administration’s shunning of the World Health Organization (WHO)-backed mission.The West African country of 31 million was.