Ensure nurses and midwives get their second dose of the AstraZaneca vaccines – GRNMA to Government

​​The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has called on the government to make it a priority that nurses and midwives who have received their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccines get their second jab as well.

GRNMA’s leadership of the association said it wants the government to see to it that they are attended to as early as possible as they are worried over the implications of not taking their second jab as well.

The Chairman of the association in the Ashanti Region made this appeal while addressing Nurses and Midwives during the Nurses and Midwives week celebrations in Kumasi.

“Nurses are at the forefront of the fight against the virus. It is very important we are protected. Just last week, we lost a pregnant nurse. It is very important for the government to urgently inoculate all nurses and midwives with the vaccines,” he noted.

Frontline health workers including nurses and midwives have had their fair share of Covid-19 infections and the GRNMA in the Ashanti Region reported in January this year that several of its members had got infected with the virus.

Jones Afriyie Anto, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has called on the government to intensify public education to help reduce the spread of the virus.

“The hospitals are spending a lot in supplying PPE to staff for the work. The truth is that since this second wave, we have over 20 nurses and midwives who have been reported as positive. If the trend continues like that, it means that those nurses will not be available for work. Apart from that, their contacts are going to be traced and asked to isolate. Most of the contacts are going to be nurses and midwives. So they will also not be available for work. It is really burdening our work system, and it is affecting us.”

By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh

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