Mr. Daniel Konka, the Sunyani West Municipal Director of Health, has advised people who have taken the double dose of the COVID-19 vaccine not to overlook, instead go for the booster dose, to protect themselves in the festive season.

He said it was possible for those who had already been vaccinated to be still infected by the COVID-19 virus when they disregarded the health safety protocols.

“But hope is that such people will not die, but possibly be hospitalized because the vaccine will suppress the viral load and this is why we must all go for the booster dose to finish our course”, he stated.

Mr. Konka gave the advice when Transformation 108 Foundation, an international Non-governmental Organization presented medical devices and equipment to the Dumasua Health Center in the Sunyani West Municipality.

They include delivery beds, vaccine storage refrigerator, chest table, several mackintosh aprons and elbow utility gloves, Davon solutions, wound dressing kits, adult weighing and toddler scales, BP apparatus, chairs, and a laptop.

The foundation which advocates general wellbeing of the needy in society and women empowerment also renovated the Out-Patient Department (OPD) unit and maternity ward of the center and also provided the facility with washrooms and potable drinking water.

Mr. Konka regretted that despite the continuous public education on the COVID-19, many people in the Municipality had still not gone for the vaccination, and advised those yet to take the vaccine to do so for their own good.

He said the COVID-19 had killed many people in the Municipality since 2020, and asked the public to disregard unfounded theories and myths surrounding the vaccine and make themselves available to be vaccinated.

“We still have enough vaccines available, and we plead with those who have not been vaccinated to do so to protect themselves and people around them and also help stem the spread of the virus in the yuletide”, Mr. Konka stated.

He thanked the NGO for the items, and appealed for more support to help expand the facility to help meet the health needs of the people due to the rapid population growth in the area.

Mr Jnana Chakus Das, the President of the Foundation and an indigene of the town, advised the management of the facility to take care and ensure that the items were used for the intended purposes.