The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has urged Ghanaians to be cautious about President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's promise of some 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines arriving in the country by October.
According to the General Secretary of the GMA, Dr Titus Bayuo, previous promises about vaccine arrivals by government have not materialized.
"Frankly, with the 18 million doses of vaccines promise by the President, we will have to be cautious because we were told we were getting some one or two million doses in the past as of now how many of them are in? Maybe they are in and I don't know or haven't seen them".
"So until I see the 18 million doses we shouldn't jump ahead of ourselves. Until I see the doses in Ghana I won't jubilate. Until we get them in the arm of every Ghanaian I will hesitate in jubilating," he told Francis Abban on Morning Starr Tuesday.
Ghana hopes to receive over 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines before October as it struggles to contain a third wave of infections, President Akufo-Addo said in a speech on Sunday.
"We are expecting, through the COVAX facility, one million Pfizer vaccines from the United States of America, two hundred and twenty nine thousand, six hundred and seventy (229,670) Pfizer vaccines from the African Union, and two hundred and forty-nine thousand (249,000) AstraZeneca vaccines from the United Kingdom.