Some 11 doctors have written to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to issue a directive for the nationwide vaccine rollout in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic to be paused.
The doctors say the risks associated with these vaccines, per the data studied so far, outweigh the potential benefits, if any.
In their petition dated Monday, January 10, 2022, the doctors, who call themselves as Concerned Ghanaian Doctors, cited how the UK and Israel are still battling with the virus despite a high vaccination rate of their respective populations.
“These countries have very high vaccination rates, currently deploying booster programmes, yet they are struggling to get the virus under control especially with these new variants,” the doctors observed in the jointly-signed petition.
“Assuming as a country we are to vaccinate more than 50% of our population, are we going to continue with perpetual boosters every 3 to 6 months in an attempt to maintain vaccine induced immunity for this disease?
“Where then is the end point when these vaccines do not stop infection or the spread of Covid-19? Is this financially feasible for us as a nation?”
They contended that the case fatality rate is not as high as anticipated especially given the fact that not many citizens are testing.
For them, the vaccines becoming a mandate is only a ploy by some pharmaceutical companies to rake in profits.
“If there is safe, effective, affordable, freely available early treatment for Covid-19, vaccines are no longer a priority.
“It doesn’t take a genius to recognise the financial benefit of pharmaceutical companies in demonising potential early, effective treatments.
“If these medications do work, that’s wonderful in the human race’s fight against Covid-19. However, they are practicably placebos if they don’t work. Why the suppression and demonising of these early treatments then, if the concern is health.
“Considering all these, wouldn’t it be prudent to pause and ask ourselves whether these novel vaccines are necessary in the first place,” they quizzed.
For them, Ghana, and for that matter Africa, must lead the way in the fight against Covid-19.
“All the relevant metrics show that Ghana and Africa at large have done better than most of the world with respect to the pandemic even before the advent of these vaccines.
“It is possible the rest of the world are rather to learn from us.”
The doctors are Dr Timothy Oblijah Armah, Dr Bismark Opoku-Asare, Dr Faisal Adjei, Dr William Ghunney and Dr Bernard Boateng Adjei.
The others are Dr Doreen Oye Agyei, Dr Michael Agyemang-Wiredu, Dr Richard Fayah and Dr Sedem Cyril Klinogoh.
The rest are Dr Phil Dowuona and Dr Emmanuel Awuttey.
Source: 3 news
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You have all the numbers you need to take an action. You have an association, TUC and GFL whose mandate is to protect your interest not only at the work place but in the community at large. Your loud silence over the compulsory Covid vaccination is unacceptable to say the least. Why are you living in fear at the work place having this powerful tool at your disposal? Is it a case of being ***barred word*** of how powerful you are as workers? Why are you putting your health at risk for fear of loosing your job? The time to speak up is now. The time to send a strong warning to employers is now. The time to hold your Trade Union leaders and Parliamentarians accountable is now. The time to reap the full benefit of the dues you have been paying and the vote you have been casting all these years is now. They either act or you stop paying dues and voting. Let me ask you this question before I sign off. Can you imagine your children who can not think for themselves getting vacinated or being denied access to education for refusing to take Covid vaccine? This is the time to hit the street with numerous protest, petitioning the three arms of government and all the opinion leaders in this country against compulsory Covid vaccination. Taking the vaccine should be a matter of choice and those who decide not to take it should not be intimidated or discriminated against for the lives of unvaccinated people also matter. This is a game of numbers, and you either do this now as workers to protect your own lives and that of your innocent children or you perish next year.
Let Africa ( Ghana) develop its own ways of solving problems. One size fits all is not good for Africa. We have the best medications but the ' azaaa' has reduced our confidence in them!
Seriously Kwasi? Do you really read? Have you been following outcomes since the pandemic hit the media? Do you understand what critical analysis mean? How many times have the medical world recycled good old "trial and error" method? Now you check this and check the date: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/up-90-covid-patients-icu-unboosted-boris-johnson 90% patients in UK hospitals lCUs are "unboosted". This simply means the previous 2 shots are almost worthless as the virus keeps mutating. How can you solve an equation with evolving variables with a constant- which is the so called vaccine? A bit of critical thinking proves this point. More so, we are not dying by the 100ks in Sub-Saharan Africa (except SA where poverty and plethora of half casts quarter casts Comparing UK population to ours, there should have been 60,000 covid deaths in Ghana. We are not any close. That shitty one-size-fits-all solution does not hold water. Again, with 25% of Europeans/Americans (whites) carry Neanderthal sub-species component in their DNA making them super exposed and vulnerable to the virus, why should "thoroughbred" black African humanoids follow them. The numbers prove it - we are more resistant to the corona virus. Why force masses to take a vaccine where the proportion of infections/hospitalization is almost "inversely proportional" to comparative data in the West?
The story of a student knowing more than his teacher. These countries you mentioned taught you medicine and they are advising you to take the vaccine to avoid mortality. You say no. Good for you Mr concern doctor, Ian in UK and I can confirm that the vaccine has helped a lot by reducing the death rate drastically. Study well and stop the noise.