GHS to develop app to ease COVID-19 vaccine rollout
The government has announced plans to develop a software application to aid Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout campaign which started in March.
The service is hopeful that data collected with the app, will impact positively on decision-making in the future.
According to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the application is being sourced locally.
“We are currently going to adapt a locally developed app which will allow us to be able to schedule and do pre-registration before you go and vaccinate. You can book appointments.
“It will generate your COVID-19 passport for you, so we know all see those who are getting the vaccine and the database will be in Ghana.
“Whatever the world decides on COVID-19, we will have a database locally to be able to respond appropriately including checking if persons who have had positive tests have had vaccinations or not,” Dr. Kuma-Aboagye said at a press conference on Monday.
Ghana began the vaccination exercise on March 2, after it received 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The government, again received 50,000 more doses as a donation from the Indian government.
The government expects to take delivery of 2 million AstraZeneca vaccines by the end of May.
As of March 7, 220,252 are on record as having been vaccinated, with the Greater Accra Region having the highest number of persons – 128,088 vaccinated.
Friday, March 5, 2021, saw the highest number of persons vaccinated with 46,780.
The proportion of persons vaccinated by sex is almost 50:50.
Ashanti has a total of 69,325 vaccinated as of Sunday night whilst the Kasoa area in the Central Region had a total of 4639 vaccinated as of Sunday night.
Below is a breakdown of Vaccinations by sex and region.
Dr Kuma-Aboagye indicated that the figure was likely to go up since there are some data entry challenges and that about a third of the number is still being entered.
He projected that the figure was likely to hit 300,000 when all the data is entered.