Ghana’s Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu is demanding scientific evidence from a group of anti-vaccine Ghanaian doctors who have petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to halt the COVID-19 vaccination programme since, according to them, the inoculation is rather worsening the spread of the pandemic rather than helping the situation.
Concerned Doctors of Ghana is requesting that all forms of COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the country be rescinded with immediate effect.
The doctors say they disagree with the government’s strategy of banking all hopes on these vaccines and directly or indirectly coercing Ghanaians to go for inoculations against this novel coronavirus disease, which scientists are still learning about.
The doctors noted that being a novel virus, many of these measures, protocols and tactics have been, at best, educated guesses at fighting a virus that is still being studied.
The doctors, in a letter addressed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, further said “during the early days of the pandemic, the general sentiment was to hold on for a vaccine to come and save the day”.
“We were told that these vaccines were our only way out of this pandemic, providing immunity against infection, preventing severe/critical disease hospitalisations and death. Over time, however, all these have been shown to be false assertions.”
Source: Ashantibiz
