From Uchenna Ezeadigwe
Awka
Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Vincent Okpala has called on Anambra citizens to visit their Local Government designated centres and get vaccinated.
Okpala who made the call during the press briefing organized by the Anambra State Covid-19 Action Team in collaboration with the Anambra State Primary Health Development Agency to journalists on Tuesday in Awka, stated that, “it is no longer news that on March 2nd, Nigeria took delivery of an estimated 4million doses of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca COVID-19 Vaccine, out of which Anambra state received 78,810 doses”.
The vaccine we have received is the product of a rigorous scientific process and has been certified as safe by multiple agencies abroad.
The commissioner while urging stakeholders at various levels to support in sensitizing their subjects on the benefits of proposed vaccine introduced noted that the vaccine will be at designation health facilities with an average of 3-5 vaccination centres per Local Government Areas.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary, Anambra Primary Health Care Development Agency, Hon. Chioma Ezenyimulu said “we are happy that Anambra has joined the rest of the world in rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine”. She noted that they have sensitized people on the vaccination which will be carried out in four stages beginning with the frontline health workers.
