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Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by COVID vaccine challenge

Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by COVID vaccine challenge Reuters 1 hr ago By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) - When Ghana received 50,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from India last month, it hit a frustrating roadblock: it had not trained enough staff to distribute them. The country was still rolling out shots received in late February from the global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX, and didn t have the capacity to expand that operation, according to the head of Ghana s immunisation programme.

Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by COVID-19 vaccine challenge

Apr 21, 2021 DAKAR – When Ghana received 50,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from India last month, it hit a frustrating roadblock: It had not trained enough staff to distribute them. The country was still rolling out shots received in late February from the global vaccine-sharing program COVAX, and didn’t have the capacity to expand that operation, according to the head of Ghana’s immunization program. Rather than going straight into the arms of health workers, the additional doses were put in cold storage in the capital Accra, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano said, adding that his team had received two days’ notice about the shipment. “We were in the middle of the first campaign,” Amponsa-Achiano said. “How do you plan for 50,000 when you already are doing another campaign?”

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Many lack vaccine storage, training and equipment Ghana alone faces almost $44 million funding gap Conflict-weary Mali, South Sudan have a hard road By Edward McAllister DAKAR, April 21 (Reuters) - When Ghana received 50,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from India last month, it hit a frustrating roadblock: it had not trained enough staff to distribute them. The country was still rolling out shots received in late February from the global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX, and didn t have the capacity to expand that operation, according to the head of Ghana s immunisation programme. Rather than going straight into the arms of health workers, the additional doses were put in cold storage in the capital Accra, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano told Reuters, adding that his team had received two days notice about the shipment.

Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by COVID-19 vaccine challenge

Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by COVID-19 vaccine challenge
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Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by COVID vaccine challenge

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