Dr Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health said that because of poor data capture Uganda is being ranked wrongly noting that the current vaccination coverage is much higher than what is being presented on the world health organisation dashboard.
The Minister
for Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has tasked district leaders in the Ankole
Sub-region to recruit more data entrants at Vaccination centres.
Dr Aceng was
speaking at the launch of the accelerated Covid-19 Vaccination for the 13
districts forming the Ankole Sub-region at Igongo cultural centre on Monday.
She said
that each district should recruit 10 data entrants to sit at the main center
while at each vaccination center there should be two data entrants.
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She says
that the statistics will help the Ministry of Health in offering digital
Covid-19 vaccination certificates that are recognised world the over to avoid
the quarantines and testings’ in other countries.
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Dr Diana
Atwine, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health said that because of
poor data capture Uganda is being ranked wrongly.
She said that the current vaccination coverage is much higher than what is being presented on the World Health Organisation dashboard.
She tasked
the district leaders to mobilise the young boys and girls in the villages that
are waiting to go back to schools to support data entry.
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Augubashongorera, the Chairperson LC V Rubirizi district said that people are
freely up taking the vaccine but they are challenged by the lack of enough
vaccines in the districts.
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According to
the data at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital only 13,000 persons have so far
been vaccinated and as the acceleration vaccination programme is launched, it is targeting to vaccinate the 1.6 million persons in the Ankole Sub-region that
has 13 districts including Bushenyi, Mbarara, Ntungamo, Kazo, Kiruhura, Isingiro and Sheema among others.
