September 7, 2021
BY PROBLYNN J. ALPHA
The national supervisor for the massive Covid-19 vaccination exercise has commended the Kono district coronavirus emergency response Centre (DICOVERC) coordinator kono Rev. Ambassador Samuel Sahr Sam for a successful covid-19 vaccination exercise in kono district.
Tamba Wonder Ansumana made this statement to A-Z with regards to the turnout of people for the just concluded massive national covid-19 vaccination exercise in the district.
He said prior to the commencement of the aforementioned exercise in the district at least a three day micro planning training was organized for health and mobilization workers including other stakeholders in order to have a successful massive covid-19 vaccination exercise in the district.
Mr. Ansumana maintained that although he was in kono district together with the technical team to support the district health management team (DHMT) and the district coronavirus emergency response Centre for the massive covid-19 vaccination exercise but the role played by both the DHMT and the DICOVERC coordinator kono for the said exercise which started on the 23rd August and ended on the 1st September 2021 must be commended.
He noted that both the first and second vaccination exercise in the district recorded more than six thousand four hundred and forty four people and nine hundred people respectively as at the 30th of August 2021 whiles stating that the actual statistics of people vaccinated for the second dose cannot be ascertained as the exercise was ongoing.
He said that the technical staff’s secondary responsibility is to serve as ambassadors for the importance of the covid-19 vaccination exercise in the country.
Tamba Wonder Ansumana attributed it to the healthy working relationship that exists between the DICOVERC coordinator and the people of Kono district and urged them to maintain such healthy working relationship.
Whilst explaining the importance of the covid-19 vaccine, Tamba Wonder Ansumana said it minimizes the hospitalization of infected patients and fortifies the immune system of people, the national supervisor for the massive covid-19 vaccination exercise pointed out that after the national massive vaccination exercise unvaccinated people can visit the different government hospitals and other strategic areas in order for them to be vaccinated as prevention is better than cure.
Tamba Wonder Ansumana thanked everyone for supporting the said vaccination exercise especially the DICVERC kono boss whose initiative saw the massive vaccination of the diamond star football team and its fans at a ceremony held at the community football field in Koidu city.
While reiterating governments plans of restricting vaccinated people not to access government facilities including other strategic facilities across the country, Tamba Wonder Ansumana pleaded with all and sundry to maintain the prescribed covid-19 infection, Prevention and control measure in order to curtail the spread of coronavirus pandemic.
“Apart from people under eighteen years and those with spiral health conditions, I expect all to be vaccinated as a healthy nation is a wealthy nation’’, Mr. Ansumana concluded.
In a similar development passengers travelling on the Bo, Kono, and Makeni Freetown highway have accused some security personnel at the mile thirty eight (38) check point of trivializing the covid-19 fight in the country and the world as a whole as the virus is a pandemic.
The passengers told A-Z that the presence of the security personnel at the afore said check point always telling people to come down the vehicle without making water available for hand washing and to check for the proper use of the face masks is more or less a way of trivializing the much talked about covid-19 fight in the world as a whole.
The passengers assumed that the attitude of some security personnel at the mile 38 check point cannot be unconnected with the inhumane treatment meted out on of their colleagues who was allegedly put in the back boot of the deputy minister of internal affairs Lahai Lawrence Leima to Freetown because he said the officer failed to recognize his presence as a government functionary.