Director of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health & Wellness, Dr. Melody Ennis - Gleaner file photo
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Dr. Melody Ennis
Jamaica is about 80 per cent ready in its preparation to begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine in February.
It is expected that Jamaica could get enough doses to vaccinate up to 125,000 people over the next few weeks, with about 16 per cent of the population to be inoculated by the end of this year.
Director of Family Health Services in the health ministry, Dr. Melody Ennis says the ministry is focused on public education to increase acceptance of the vaccine as well as finalising storage and distribution plans.
Dr. Ennis says she's confident all will be in place when the vaccine arrives in the island.
“The sites that we will be vaccinating from, we are ensuring that they have the right setting in order for us to observe patients once they have been vaccinated. We are organizing our mobile teams….We’re fully mobilized to meet the target once the vaccines get here [so] we can begin to get them into arms,” she says.
Dr. Ennis says there will be vaccination centres across the country.
“We have our fixed sites. That will include some of the hospitals. That will be to vaccinate hospital staff within those parishes…They need not worry that the vaccines won’t get to them or that they have to travel far.”
She says vaccination sites will also be set up at health centres.
In some cases, health personnel will travel to areas to administer the vaccines.
Dr. Ennis was speaking at a virtual town hall on Thursday.
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