Kalangala district runs out of Covid-19 vaccines

By Our Reporter

3^rd Nov 2021

Medical workers in Kalangala District are overwhelmed by demands for Covid-19 vaccines amid stock-outs.

The District COVID-19 task force created 14 vaccination centers in the area, but the centers can hardly serve the high number of people that are turning up due to inadequate vaccine doses.

Godfrey Hadubi, the Kalangala District Health Inspector who also coordinates the vaccination exercise says that 3,000 doses of vaccines that the district received last week are no more due to high demand.

Fred Kaweesi, a health worker at Kalangala Health Centre IV says on average, the facility receives at least 40 people a day who show up to be vaccinated, but they are turned away due to lack of vaccines supplies.  He says many people are now eager to receive the jab, attributing it to the end of the year’s festive season which is closing in.

According to Hidubi, in total, the district has so far received 9,000 doses of vaccines that were all administered. He however adds that they have notified the Ministry of Health about the high demands for vaccine supplies, and they expect a new consignment to be delivered any time soon.

Late last month, the government received a consigned 1.4 million doses of Covid-19 single jab vaccines of Johnson and Johnson, which Doctor Diana Atwine, the Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary indicated will be allocated to special cases communities that include Islands.