The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana has noted that the quantity of COVID-19 vaccines that the government is procuring is inadequate for the population.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has indicated that the government is procuring 17.6million doses of the vaccines to Ghana.

In the last update to the nation on the coronavirus on Sunday January 31, he said “Fellow Ghanaians, in Update No. 21, I indicated that Ghana is set to procure her first consignment of the COVID vaccines within the first half of this year. Since then, a lot of work has been done towards the realisation of this.

“Our aim is to vaccinate the entire population, with an initial target of twenty million people. Through bilateral and multilateral means, we are hopeful that, by the end of June, a total of seventeen million, six hundred thousand (17.6 million) vaccine doses would have been procured for the Ghanaian people.

“The earliest vaccine will be in the country by March. The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) will use its established processes for granting emergency-use-authorisation for each vaccine in Ghana. As President of the Republic, I assure you that only vaccines that have been evaluated and declared as safe-for-use in Ghana will be administered.”

But the Executive Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana, Lucia Addae- Ntiri says government must resource local manufacturers to produce the vaccines.