The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Kunle Oluomo, has received his jab of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, as the state government commenced inoculation of citizens at all the major Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the state on Thursday.
A statement issued in Abeokuta, the state capital, by Governor Dapo Abiodun’s Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, said the need to ensure even, equitable and unhindered access to the vaccine informed the decision to take the vaccines to all the PHCs.
The statement noted that all the nurses and other community healthcare workers were being trained in the administration of the vaccines.
The training, Somorin further said, was in compliance with the directives of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency to ensures that nothing goes wrong.
Luckily, he added, “the state has been training and retraining our frontline healthcare workers and community healthcare givers since the outbreak of the pandemic in February, last year.
“Our PHCs are ready and no stone will be left unturned to ensure that every Ogun resident is inoculated against the dreaded virus; even as we intensify sensitisation on the need to keep all the guidelines and protocols, like the use of face masks, social distancing and regular washing of hands with soap and water and sanitisers at regular intervals, among others.
“The government is determined to ensure that all residents across the state have access to the vaccine, in line with the guidelines of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). More doses of the vaccines are going to be made available beyond the first tranche that was given by the World Health Organization and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.”
