Three Ghanaian health workers have been remanded into Police Custody for allegedly stealing vials of AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid19 Vaccine.
According to Ghana Health Service (GHS), it is conducting an investigation into the alleged stealing of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid19 Vaccine vials in some Hospitals in the Greater Accra Region.
GHS made this known in a statement signed by its Director General, Dr Patrick Kim’s-Aboagye, condemning “such alleged criminal act in no uncertain terms.”
Police in the Greater Accra Region had arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in the stealing and sale of COVISHIELD vaccines belonging to the Ghanaian Government.
One of the suspects is a 37-year-old Disease Control Officer of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Stephen Dzisenu, who is believed to have stolen 36 vials of COVIDSHIELD.
A Disease Control Officer of the La Bawalashie Polyclinic, Lord Pabitey, now at large, is also alleged to have stole 26 vials of COVIDSHIELD.
Cosmos Allotey, a 42-year-old Occupational Health and Safety Officer, is equally alleged to have received the stolen COVIDSHIELD from Pabitey and Dzisenu.
Allotey allegedly administered the vaccines at a cost of GH¢200.00 per jab.
Again, one Joseph Knight Gaisie, a Project Assistant and a former Laboratory Technician at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital is in police custody for alleged abetment of crime.
The suspects namely Dzisenu, Gaisie and Allotey – have been remanded into lawful custody by an Accra Circuit Court to reappear on April 1, 2021.
But the GHS in its statement disclosed that “an administrative inquiry is being instituted and appropriate sanctions shall be applied if they are found culpable.”
According to the statement, “the Service commits to cooperate with the Security agencies to unravel the circumstances leading to this illicit act.”
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