A man buys smuggled and/or counterfeit medicine 14 June 2007 on the Adjame market in Abidjan. Ivorian pharmacists are worried about the multiplication of fraudulent street medecine that are, according to them, threatening their trade and the health of patients. Fraudulent street medecine sales have risen by 15 to 25 percent in the last two years in Ivory Coast and represent a 53 million euro a year loss for the legal pharmaceutical sector, according to the chairman of the national order council, overseeing the trade, Parfait Kouassi. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
Benue State government has declared that Covid-19 vaccination to the people should be voluntary.
Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Ngunan Adingi, who disclosed this during a media briefing at the end of the state executive council meeting held at Government House, Makurdi, said every arrangement has been put in place to commence the exercise Thursday, at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital Makurdi and added that 75,000 doses of the vaccine have been received ready for administration.
Also speaking, commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Joseph Ngbea, told journalists that government has put in place adequate arrangement including rapid response mechanisms to cases of those that would react as a result of the vaccination and encouraged members of the public not to be afraid.
Dr. Ngbea, dissuaded fears from members of the Public that the vaccine will have adverse effect on them and argued that every vaccine has its side-effect.
The commissioner further assured that his has set up a team of experts who have prepared questionnaires to administer on those who would take the vaccine to ascertain their reactions to enable officials take appropriate actions.
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