The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Damien Punguyire has urged the public to take advantage of December 2021 which has been declared as Vaccination Month by taking the Covid-19 jab.
He indicated that it is necessary for all those who are eligible to take the vaccine to do so, as a way of protecting themselves, their families as well as those they will interact with.
Dr. Punguyire made the call at Socialisation organised by members of the Kassena Nankana Union in Wa.
The event was to enable people from the Kassena Nankana resident in Wa to socialise and get to know each other better, with the ultimate aim of serving as social support to members of the Union in times of need.
The playmates of the Kassena Nankana people of Sissala, Gonja and Zabrama extraction were also in attendance cracking jokes to spice up the occasion.
Dr Damien Pumguyire stressed the need for us to take preventive measures in relation to this Yuletide as the rate of interaction with others will be upscaled.
“Christmas is coming and we are going to be interacting so much, last year Christmas the months of January, February, March we were hot because the infections were so that health facilities were overwhelmed and want to take preemptive measures to protect all of us so that after the Christmas fall sick don’t get our relatives dying of Covid-19 so that we congregate to celebrate funerals,” he noted.
Dr. Punguyire advised parents to see to it that their children between the ages of 15 to 17 are vaccinated, saying from January 2022, people who have not been vaccinated will not be allowed in certain places.
Commenting on the side effects, Dr Punguyire observed that the temporary discomfort experienced in Covid-19 Vaccine is better than avoiding the jab, or falling victim to the disease:
“If you look at the temporary discomfort that your body has experienced compared to you get the disease and you fall sick severely you may need to be taken to the ICU to be put on oxygen if you are lucky you survive if you’re not lucky you die compare the near-death or dying to discomfort of headache, fever, joint pains which will just last for few days and then will go which one is better?”
Chairman of the Kassena Nankana Union in Wa, Pious K. Tunti was very thankful to the members of the Union in time in spite of their busy schedule to fly another and make merry.
Registrar of the Technical University, Vitus Songotuah entreated his compatriots to endeavour to rope in citizens of Kasena Nankana who are sitting on the fence to join the Union.
