Despite the continued slow uptake of the Coronavirus vaccines in Grenada, the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Religious Affairs (MOHWARA) through the Community Nursing Department, is not relenting.
it is instead ensuring that all efforts are made to encourage vaccination against the deadly virus, through education, awareness, and the availability of a variety of vaccines.
The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Religious Affairs has received another batch of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. 5,850 doses of Pfizer vaccines and 6,000 doses of Moderna vaccines were donated to the Government and People of Grenada by the Government of the Republic of Korea.
Acknowledging receipt of the medicine and recognising its life-saving value and benefits as was demonstrated during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry thanked the Government of the Republic of Korea for the donation.
The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Religious Affairs also places on record its sincere thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Export Development in Grenada for its role in securing the donation.
With the new school year beginning on Monday, 5 September 2022, health officials are encouraging parents to be mindful of the presence of Covid-19, vaccine-preventable diseases, and gastroenteritis.
Nursing officials say it is of paramount importance and beneficial to both parent and child, to have their full complement of childhood vaccines, and to encourage the practice of proper hand and cough hygiene on re-entering the school setting to prevent disease outbreak and transmission.
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What’s the point, less than forty thousand have been fully vaccinated so far. Grenadians have never taken this virus seriously. This country has wasted more vaccines than have been administered. The masking policy in health centres is ignored, even when people are given masks they just hold them in their hands rather than put them on. People do not realize there was a massive spike in cases recently in the UK due to a new variant of the Omicron virus. We may be next. Covid is not over yet.
Vaccines are only good of they can be administered… 11,850 doses, but how many will be used and in the end how many wasted? Report those findings please.
Yes. I agree. Has Grenada considered donating doses to countries with an unmet need? And I also call for MOHWARA to be broken up into its constituent components. A Ministry of Health. A Ministry of Wellness. A Ministry of Religious and Administrative Affairs.