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President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo recently called on the Board of the National Vaccine Institute (NVI) to bring to fruition the vision of developing and manufacturing vaccines locally. Ghana must build the capacity to manufacture vaccines to reduce dependence on unreliable sources, as was witnessed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo recently called on the Board of the National Vaccine Institute (NVI) to bring to fruition the vision of developing and manufacturing vaccines locally. Ghana must build the capacity to manufacture vaccines to reduce dependence on unreliable sources, as was witnessed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, he stressed.
The country could no longer be dependent on the global vaccine market, he said, adding that the country should achieve self-sufficiency in vaccine production to meet future national, regional, and continental needs of universal healthcare.
The President made those comments while inaugurating the new 13-member Governing Board at a ceremony at the Jubilee House, Accra recently.
President Akufo-Addo recalled Ghana’s struggle to secure vaccines on the international market when the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country. He asked the Board to work to meet the expectation of Ghanaians to save the country from global vaccine nationalism and geopolitics.
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The President later commissioned the new ultra-modern office complex for the NVI at Cantonments, Accra, and told the institute to maintain the facility
