At around 10:30pm on Wednesday, 175,200 doses of AstraZaneca vaccine donated by the French government through the COVAX facility landed at Entebbe Airport aboard a KLM flight and received by officials from the Ministry of Health and National Medical Stores.
According to the National Medical Stores Principal Public Relations Officer, the doses were then taken to their cold rooms in Entebbe.
“They will be dispatched to health facilities and vaccination centres across the country,” Nduhukire said.
The arrival of these vaccines is a sign of relief to the population after the country had run short of the vaccines, a situation that frustrated government efforts to vaccinate the high-risk people.
Following the shortage of Covid vaccines at a time they are needed most, some private health facilities decided to make a kill out of the situation by selling the doses for a much as shs300,000.
In an operation to ascertain which private health facilities were selling Covid vaccines that are meant to be administered free of charge to the public, Police last week managed to arrest 12 people, recovered 803 used doses and, empty vaccine bottles, 1000 immunization cards.
Further investigations are still ongoing into this matter..
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