Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu has been summoned to appear before Parliament following the shortage of polio and other vaccines in the country.
Health facilities across the country have been experiencing vaccine shortages, with no solution in place.
The situation had created fear and panic among parents.
Because of this, the Chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee advised that the Minister is summoned to respond to questions over the matter.
The Minister and other agency heads would meet with the Committee on Tuesday, February 28.
“I have the direction of the Chairman of the Committee on Health to invite you to an emergency meeting to brief the Committee on the cause of vaccine shortage in Ghana and the measures being put in place to address the situation, on Tuesday, 28th February 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the Committee Room 1&2, New Administration Block, Parliament House,” the clerk of Parliament’s Health Committee wrote in a letter to the Health Minister and copied to the heads.
“The Committee also requests the presence of the following institutions’ heads and relevant officers: the Ghana Health Service, the National Health Insurance Authority, the Global Fund, the Ministry of Finance, and the Vaccine Control Programme.”
By: Rainbowradioonlne.com/Ghana
