At least 200,000 COVID-19 vaccines have expired in Senegal without being used in the past two months and another 200,000 are set to expire at the end of December because demand is too slow, the head of its immunisation programme said on Monday. African governments have been calling for more[Read More…]
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Senegal Records First Omicron Case In Tourist Who Attended Demonstration
Senegal has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a tourist who attended a demonstration in the capital Dakar last month with about 300 people of varying nationalities, testing lab IRESSEF said on Sunday. The 58-year-old man was visiting from another West African country and[Read More…]
Ghana’s NHIS Is A Shining Model In Africa – Dr. Samateh
(JollofNews) – Gambia’s Health Minister, Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh says there is no doubt about Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) often recognized as a shining model in Africa. He extolled the NHIS when he led a delegation to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Head Office in Accra on[Read More…]