Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayokor Botchway has indicated that the reasons why Ghana used middlemen to buy the Sputnik V Vaccine are justified.
Addressing a press conference today, Monday, June 14 she said it has not been easy to get the vaccines directly from the manufacturers.
“It has not been easy at all. Not just for Ghana, but for any of our country and not just for Africa but also for other countries around the world.
“Whether we were involved. Yes we were involved, and I can assure you that it is difficult to procure vaccines directly from manufacturers,” she disclosed.
The Ministry of Health last week issued a statement explaining that “We were torn between accepting the price to enable us to have access to the vaccine or facing the situation of the seller withdrawing from the negotiations to the extent that the 15,000 doses that had been shipped to Ghana were going to be rerouted to other countries.”
The statement which was signed by the Chief Director of the Ministry, Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari, further explained that the government was unable to obtain direct supplies of the vaccines from the Russian government and so had to resort to one Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the supplies.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
