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A gift that is part of the Covax initiative in which the country is involved. According to the program planned by the Ministry of Health, vaccination is scheduled to start in the first week of June and will affect healthcare professionals, people living with morbidity and pilgrimage to Mecca.
as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya Boudani
With the receipt of these first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Burkina Faso sees its control system against Covid-19 strengthen. These first doses will be made available to health professionals, people with comorbidities and candidates for Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, according to Professor Charlemagne Ouedraogo, Minister of Health.
“We will initially target healthcare staff and vulnerable people. Then you have reserved 20,000 doses for future pilgrims who are preparing to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. We have also reserved 3,000 doses for NGO staff working in the country together with internally displaced persons.[personnes déplacées internes]. “
Voluntary vaccination
The settlement representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Burkina Faso welcomed the arrival of these first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Professor Alimata Diarra-Nama assures the country of the support of his institution as part of this fight against Covid-19: “We are happy in advance that this vaccine will prevent other deaths as long as eligible individuals take their two doses. AstraZeneca is an effective vaccine. “
These vaccine doses will be relocated in the next few hours to secondary depots in the 13 health areas in the country. The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 starts on June 2 and the vaccination is voluntary, the Minister of Health insisted.
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