Uganda’s Ministry of Health, World Health Organisation (WH0) Uganda and the Norwegian government have signed new agreement worth over 8 billion shillings to support the #COVID19 vaccine roll out in 146 districts.
The deal was signed at the Ministry headquarters on Thursday.
“On behalf of the @MinofHealthUG, I appreciate the Government of Norway for the enormous support worth over UGX 8Bn towards the COVID-19 vaccination program. This financial support was signed in partnership with WHO,” Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the Health Minister said.
According to the details. the project will support the vaccination of at least 2,879,100 of high-risk population eligible for vaccination. Upon acquisition of adequate vaccine quantities, health workers, teachers, security officials, and all with comorbidities will be vaccinated with 2 doses of #COVID19 vaccine.
To implement the project effectively, WHO will work with @MinofHealthUG Incident Management Team, @MakSPH; Human Resources for Health Development Institute, Mbale; @nmsuganda and Health Information Systems Program, Uganda to implement a variety of activities.
These will include; equipping teams to timely report vaccination outputs daily using the District Health Information System (#DHIS2) platform and provide real-time data from the field to the national database.
It will also have a defaulter tracking system which is expected to greatly enhance the outreach at the field level to ensure complete dose delivery.
Vaccination teams will be provided with PPE to prevent #COVID19 infection during vaccination sessions to ensure that infection prevention and control guidelines are followed, which will reduce absenteeism of health workers due to illness and improve compliance.
The project will enhance causality assessment of serious Adverse Effects Following Immunization (AEFI). The causality assessment will be undertaken by a panel of experts at national level following a systematic process to identify the cause of AEFIs.
This is critical to ensure the scientific evaluation of potential #COVID19 vaccine-related AEFIs.
Causality assessment of AEFIs will follow @WHO’s guidelines using the latest scientific basis. The findings will be disseminated using all platforms to increase vaccine demand.
A #COVID19 vaccine post-campaign coverage survey will also be conducted using the 2018 WHO vaccination coverage cluster survey reference manual.
“Even if you’re vaccinated, don’t be the reason for their infection. Protect your loved ones with all the SOPs even if you’re vaccinated. Not only get vaccinated but follow the public health measures”, Yonas Tegegn WOLDEMARIAM, the WHO Representative to Uganda said.
“Vaccination is the most efficient tool to beat the pandemic worldwide. Further to this, @NorwayMFA will donate 285,600 vaccines to #Uganda to trough #COVID19,” H.E Elin Østebø Johansen, the Norway Ambassador to Uganda.
