MOH Sputnik V Vaccine Landmine: Error? 15 or 16K? 8.3m Total?
Ghana’s Ministry of Health (MOH) Sputnik V vaccine purchase have been mind-blowing landmines.
They’ve raised lots of questions. For instance…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in it’s press release on buying overpriced Sputnik V Vaccines said it had received 15,000 of the vaccines.
Multiple news reports including the BBC, have 16,000 as the number of Sputnik vaccines received from Sheik Maktoum.
The number as quoted by the Ministry, contradicts the 16,000 vaccines it reported to have received back in March.
The question then is the change in figures due to a typographical error or misinformation on the ministry’s part?
Contradicting figures are not the only red flag from the Ministry’s June 9 statement on the purchase of overpriced vaccines.
According to the same statement, the ministry had placed an order for 300,000 Sputnik V vaccines.
The order, with a single dose going at $19, amounts to $5.7million (33, 117, 000 GHC).
What the Ministry may have failed to clearly mention was that, it had payed for that order.
That is at least according to the Norwegian paper, VG’s “Sputnik For Sale” expose, to which the MOH release addressed.
In the VG expose, the Ministry of Finance admitted to have paid for the 300,000 Sputnik V vaccines.
It should be noted that the ministry however, unequivocally noted that those 300,000 Sputnik vaccines have not been delivered till date.
The 300,000 Sputnik vaccines payed for but not delivered, are part of a 3.4 million agreement with the Ameri deal broker, Sheik Ahmed.
Media reports have cited documentation for purchase of another 5m Sputnik vaccines from another shell company for $18.5(renegotiated from $26) a dose.
This puts Ghana’s purchased Russian Sputnik V vaccines at a total of 8.3 million doses.
Of this total, only 16 or 15 thousand have been delivered.
It might another press release with actual answers to satisfy a warranted curiosity.
