{"id":876391,"date":"2025-10-09T00:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/ghs-deploys-20000-doses-of-mpox-vaccines-to-western-region\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:14:20","slug":"ghs-deploys-20000-doses-of-mpox-vaccines-to-western-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/ghs-deploys-20000-doses-of-mpox-vaccines-to-western-region\/","title":{"rendered":"GHS deploys 20,000 doses of Mpox vaccines to Western region\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has taken delivery of 20,000 doses of Mpox vaccine for a 21-day vaccination exercise aimed at helping to save lives and break the transmission cycle.<\/p>\n

The Regional Public Health Director, Dr. Gifty Amugi, stated that the 21-day vaccination exercise would involve a four-day intensive phase in most affected communities, followed by a normal delivery phase over the remaining 17 days.<\/p>\n

She described the vaccines as safe and approved by the Food and Drug Authority (FDA).<\/p>\n

The Region currently has 59 active cases from 13 districts with two deaths.<\/p>\n

Dr. Amugi said this at the Sub-national launch of the Mpox Vaccine in New Takoradi in the Western Region, with departmental heads as well as District Health Directors of the service well represented.<\/p>\n

The Acting Director-General of GHS, Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, who launched the Sub-national project, said, \u201cSome 1,800 clinicians and health staff have been trained in the surveillance\u2026 we shall keep the campaign and awareness across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He thanked dedicated workers and volunteers for their commitment to the response activities.<\/p>\n

Dr. Akoriyea said the nation has so far recorded three deaths. \u201cOur newest hope is the vaccination; we cannot afford to lose people to this preventable condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

All Health workers, close contacts of confirmed cases, and the seven high-risk districts, among others, would be vaccinated first.<\/p>\n

Dr. Akoriyea encouraged proper hand washing and avoiding close contact with or handling clothing of affected persons.<\/p>\n

He urged all stakeholders to come on board: traditional leaders, Red Cross, opinion leaders, adding, \u201cwe all need to be part of the Solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Marion Okoe, the GHS Western Regional Director, said the vaccination, which was targeted, would complement ongoing surveillance, case management, home care, and other interventions to arrest the virus.<\/p>\n

Dr. Frank Lule, from the WHO country office, said the African Region had so far recorded 120 deaths from 30,000 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n

He noted that the WHO would continue to provide technical and operational support to end the condition in Ghana.<\/p>\n

The team, after the launch, embarked on community engagement and vaccination.<\/p>\n

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The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has taken delivery of 20,000 doses of Mpox vaccine for a 21-day vaccination exercise aimed at helping to save lives and break the transmission cycle. The Regional Public Health Director, Dr. Gifty Amugi, stated that the 21-day vaccination exercise would involve a four-day intensive phase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23103,35005],"tags":[84616,45845],"class_list":{"0":"post-876391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-deploys","8":"category-doses","9":"tag-deploys","10":"tag-doses"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}