No need to entertain Ebola vacine trial – Deputy Speaker

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.USMAN. 8 years ago

Go and see how Prez Mahama of Ghana has transformed Gonjaland with Ghana money just within the two and half years that he has been in power. Every town, village and hamlet in Gonjaland has received a facelift with new facilit ...
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Go and see how Prez Mahama of Ghana has transformed Gonjaland with Ghana money just within the two and half years that he has been in power. Every town, village and hamlet in Gonjaland has received a facelift with new facilities such as roads, toilet facilities, markets, mosques, good quality water projects, electricity extension projects, etc. The question is did J. J. Rawlings do the same thing to Voltarians when he was in power for twenty years? I really weep for Ewes whose votes brought Mahama to power.
SMART 8 years ago

A maid stole some packed chips took it to her room and enjoyed it. 2 days later she saw the same chips being given to the dog so she now asked a friend whether she would die since it looks ...
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A maid stole some packed chips took it to her room and enjoyed it. 2 days later she saw the same chips being given to the dog so she now asked a friend whether she would die since it looks like what she stole was dog food. Yes there was a free financial package plus mobile phone just for taking an injection. So it was sent queitly to the world bank for sharing. Now it has come out that it is an Ebola vaccine they are making noises! nobody would have heard of it if it was anything different. When a cured ebola patient has un protected sex with a non ebola person he or she will infect that person. And that person will end up dying after 21 days. Most ebola vaccines have some element of ebola virus in it. So the voltarians can go for more mobile phones and ghs200 cedis quietly for just an ebola injection . They should only ensure those who take the injection are not permitted to come to Accra , they can go to Togo for their urgent needs. They should also note that direct cash chopping projects with no health implication goes to the North!! Looks like God is dealing with some people in this country!!!
Mary Malone 8 years ago

The bits of virus in the vaccine are "attenuated virus"....it has had the parts of the virus that allows it to multiply removed. There is just enough of it to stimulate an immune response which will make the person taking th ...
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The bits of virus in the vaccine are "attenuated virus"....it has had the parts of the virus that allows it to multiply removed. There is just enough of it to stimulate an immune response which will make the person taking the vaccine immune from Ebola in the future.
Ama 8 years ago

If Ghanians are feigning ignorance and rejecting this important drug trial, will they want to benefit from it in Future.

If Ghanians are feigning ignorance and rejecting this important drug trial, will they want to benefit from it in Future.
okofo 8 years ago

Listen to yourself: Why should the trial be made on Ghanaians? Ain't anybody living in the country of origin of the pharmaceutical company doing the trial?

Besides, Ebola is already active in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Gui ...
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Listen to yourself: Why should the trial be made on Ghanaians? Ain't anybody living in the country of origin of the pharmaceutical company doing the trial?

Besides, Ebola is already active in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, won't those already stricken in those countries by the virus "benefit" rather than looking for NEW TERRITORY to spread the deadly virus, and then pretend to treat it in the name of so called "TRIAL" or "RESEARCH"?

Wise up, use your head!!!
Obi 8 years ago

Do you know that every drug you've taken has been tried on someone else. Ebola will surface again whether we like it or not. And it will be nice to have a vaccine ready when and wherever it hits again.

Do you know that every drug you've taken has been tried on someone else. Ebola will surface again whether we like it or not. And it will be nice to have a vaccine ready when and wherever it hits again.
virus 8 years ago

thanks sister

thanks sister
TEE 8 years ago

A NORMAL HUMAN BEING, I DON'T BELIEVE IT, WE ARE BEING RULING BY ANIMAL FARM, USELESS INCOMPETENT NTANI CLUELESS MAHAMA

A NORMAL HUMAN BEING, I DON'T BELIEVE IT, WE ARE BEING RULING BY ANIMAL FARM, USELESS INCOMPETENT NTANI CLUELESS MAHAMA
Mary Malone 8 years ago

You obviously have access to the internet. You might want to pull up a map of Ghana because you will find that Sierra Leone--still actively involved (with increasing numbers each week) is involved in the current Ebola outbrea ...
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You obviously have access to the internet. You might want to pull up a map of Ghana because you will find that Sierra Leone--still actively involved (with increasing numbers each week) is involved in the current Ebola outbreak, and is smack-dab next to Ghana.

A country like Ghana is the right choice for the trials because they are (so far) untouched by Ebola. This greatly helps researchers (some of whom are Ghanians)get important data from the trials. In addition, Ghana has the advanced research facilities and doctors needed to handle the complex process of clinical trials.

In addition, Ghana is a better choice than the US (home to J&J) because there have been only 4 Ebola patients in the US,of which 1 person died. However, West Africa (which includes the country next to Ghana--Sierra Leone) has had a total of 6352 deaths. Clearly, the risk for an Ebola outbreak is more likely in than in the US, and Ghana would be one of the first countries to benefit from vaccines to prevent an Ebola infection.
Mary Malone 8 years ago

Ghanians are being swindled by their parliament.

Does parliament think we are stupid enough to believe that they had NO knowledge of the vaccine trials before 2 days ago?

If that is the truth, then the PMs who did not k ...
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Ghanians are being swindled by their parliament.

Does parliament think we are stupid enough to believe that they had NO knowledge of the vaccine trials before 2 days ago?

If that is the truth, then the PMs who did not know about the trials should immediately resign in humiliation...because people like me, who live across the world from Ghana, have been following the issue for months now, mainly from local Ghana news sources.

The MPs need to take off their outside agitators' leashes and take responsibility for remaining silent for months while negotiations and plans were made for the trials and man-up to their silence about the trials, lending their implicit agreement with the trials.
Afua 8 years ago

If this is not another Sakawa, then what is it? I have no problem with trying ebola vaccine. But my sorrow is that why should this be tried in the Volta Region of Ghana and not the 3 countries that are already affected. If it ...
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If this is not another Sakawa, then what is it? I have no problem with trying ebola vaccine. But my sorrow is that why should this be tried in the Volta Region of Ghana and not the 3 countries that are already affected. If it has to be tried in Ghana, then it should be taken to the region of the one who has given the green light for it to be tried. If Hohoe/Volta region is no more part of Ghana, please do not wipe its people away with Ebola. How much has America and its alias given to Ghana to wipe Volta Region out with Ebola? Volta Region is big enough to be on its own. It is really callous and criminal for any Ghanaian to give GHC200 to people to infect them with a virus which has almost wiped out three countries in our sub-region.
Posterity will never forgive anyone who bring this virus to our country. Our blood will be on the head of these persons and their generation
One Nation 8 years ago

It's about time we united on a national discussion. Hopefully many more to come. For the first time on this board, I can say I truly see a national discourse for a unified GHANA. I pray for many more national topics without p ...
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It's about time we united on a national discussion. Hopefully many more to come. For the first time on this board, I can say I truly see a national discourse for a unified GHANA. I pray for many more national topics without partisan politics marring the airwaves to the detriment of the poor and voiceless.
Adongo 8 years ago

If a vaccine is produced, it is tried first on mice, monkeys, etc before trial on humans. The vaccine is expected to prevent the disease and trial on humans will have to be followed by the introduction of the Ebola virus (dis ...
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If a vaccine is produced, it is tried first on mice, monkeys, etc before trial on humans. The vaccine is expected to prevent the disease and trial on humans will have to be followed by the introduction of the Ebola virus (disease) itself to the vaccinated person to observe if it is effective.

Can you imagine that happening and even if the one vaccinated does not get the disease, he/she lives in a family. He will certainly transfer it to another person.

Is the President aware of this? Does it have approval of the President? Prof Binka who is spearheading this should first vaccinate himself and his family first before offering it to another person for GH¢200.00 and a mobile phone.

This nonsense must stop. They should be chased out with cutlasses and guns; it is a declaration of war on the people of the Volta Region. NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nana Bempah 8 years ago

Thank you parliament very well said my man Joe Ghartey

Thank you parliament very well said my man Joe Ghartey
Che 8 years ago

Adongo,

You have no idea what you are talking about. The test of success will be done by testing the immune status of the participants. They will test the level of antibodies produced to the virus. They will not give them ...
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Adongo,

You have no idea what you are talking about. The test of success will be done by testing the immune status of the participants. They will test the level of antibodies produced to the virus. They will not give them ebola to be able to know if the vaccine is good.
Mary Malone 8 years ago

Are you serious? Giving thanks to the members of parliament?

For what? Trying to pull the sheep's wool over your eyes to shield themselves from criticism?

They must have known for months now about the vaccine trial, ...
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Are you serious? Giving thanks to the members of parliament?

For what? Trying to pull the sheep's wool over your eyes to shield themselves from criticism?

They must have known for months now about the vaccine trial, and if they didn't they are unfit to be in parliament.

Look at it this way. I, a regular person, who lives on the other side of the world, have been following the vaccine trials for months now by reading news articles on the internet. Many of these articles were from GhanaWeb.

If I--a nobody from the US--new about the vaccine trials months ago, why didn't parliament? For the PMs to stay at least as informed as I am, all they had to do was simply follow the news in their local news source--GhanaWeb (a great publication, by the way).

Either parliament is lying to the public about their knowledge about the clinical trials, or the PMs are not intelligent, or resourceful, enough to access news articles on the internet to keep up with current Ghanian issues.

Either way, Ghana's PMs are trying to pull a fast one on Ghana's citizens.

MPs need to come clean with when they knew about the trials or, if they continue to claim they knew nothing, why they knew nothing when a person on the other side of the world has been following the issue on GhanaWeb.
Peter 8 years ago

Mr Deputy, the Ebola vaccine trial fiasco indicates your government is chaotic,disorganised,incompetent and above all not fit to govern Ghana. No wonder so many things are falling apart. Someone has to educate the public abou ...
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Mr Deputy, the Ebola vaccine trial fiasco indicates your government is chaotic,disorganised,incompetent and above all not fit to govern Ghana. No wonder so many things are falling apart. Someone has to educate the public about the possible side effects of the vaccine before trying on the poor Ewes.
okofo 8 years ago

The Ghanaian leadership are simply DOCILE. They play yes-man to everything asked by the imperialists. If Ebola vaccine trial will work better, on a neutral ground,the best place will be the ORIGIN of those pharmaceutical comp ...
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The Ghanaian leadership are simply DOCILE. They play yes-man to everything asked by the imperialists. If Ebola vaccine trial will work better, on a neutral ground,the best place will be the ORIGIN of those pharmaceutical companies. Don't they have HUMAN BEINGS living there to serve as GUINEA PIG subjects?

African leadership, stop playing docility, and start PROTECTING your PEOPLE, your resources and INTEREST, aba!!
Mary Malone 8 years ago

Sierra Leone--still involved in an active (increasing numbers every week) Ebola outbreak. Having a vaccinated population stops diseases like Ebola in their tracks.

Therefore, Ghana (the only WAfrican country which has not ...
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Sierra Leone--still involved in an active (increasing numbers every week) Ebola outbreak. Having a vaccinated population stops diseases like Ebola in their tracks.

Therefore, Ghana (the only WAfrican country which has not had an Ebola outbreak) will be the first ones to benefit from the clinical trials if Ebola should cross the border to Sierra Leone and try to make a home in Ghana.

In addition, Ghana has a top-notch university, with brilliant scientists, who can learn along with the others involved in the trials.

These scientists will be able to take this hands-on knowledge and use it benefit others in West Africa...and around the world.
Jay 8 years ago

Volta Region people are stupid and foolish. When stupid President lied to them then, they think is good idea to allow use them Ebola experiment. Why the Prez will not sent to the north where there was Ebola?

Volta Region people are stupid and foolish. When stupid President lied to them then, they think is good idea to allow use them Ebola experiment. Why the Prez will not sent to the north where there was Ebola?
James 8 years ago

We are in a scientific age where trials conducted carefully according to national and international protocols. This is not a live vaccine and the the risk of Ebola should be negligent. The vaccines we benefit from today all w ...
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We are in a scientific age where trials conducted carefully according to national and international protocols. This is not a live vaccine and the the risk of Ebola should be negligent. The vaccines we benefit from today all went through trials. We should consider this trial as our contribution to the development of a vaccine to combat the deadly disease. Who knows where it strikes next
We should be more concerned about drinking concoctions sold to us as a the cure for all illnesses. We are dying slowly from the side effect, eg kidney failure. We should demand testing of these to make sure they are safe.
back door director 8 years ago

The diplomatic corps is having a good laugh. Even the deputy speaker a lawyer of repute has caught the ignorance disease.
Joe Ghartey did parliament pass act 851 for fun.

The diplomatic corps is having a good laugh. Even the deputy speaker a lawyer of repute has caught the ignorance disease.
Joe Ghartey did parliament pass act 851 for fun.
Osei Yao 8 years ago

THIS SHOWS CRASS IGNORANCE OF OUR PARLIAMENTARIANS. CLINICAL TRIAL STUDY IS A CONTROLLED SCIENTIFIC/MEDICAL STUDY OF A VACINE. PARLIAMENTARIANS DO NOT HAVE TO SANCTION IT. THIS IS A SHAMEFUL DISPLAY OF IGNORANCE.

THIS SHOWS CRASS IGNORANCE OF OUR PARLIAMENTARIANS. CLINICAL TRIAL STUDY IS A CONTROLLED SCIENTIFIC/MEDICAL STUDY OF A VACINE. PARLIAMENTARIANS DO NOT HAVE TO SANCTION IT. THIS IS A SHAMEFUL DISPLAY OF IGNORANCE.
Mary Malone 8 years ago

I completely agree with your comment.

I completely agree with your comment.
Oracle 8 years ago

At last I'm reading some sense about this vaccine trial instead of the ignorant comments from last week and another from a former attorney general. Unbelievable that the speaker of parliament can halt a function of a ministry ...
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At last I'm reading some sense about this vaccine trial instead of the ignorant comments from last week and another from a former attorney general. Unbelievable that the speaker of parliament can halt a function of a ministry. Call the minister yes but to usurp his office?
maame 8 years ago

Thank you Deputy Speaker of parliament. We are grateful for saving us from this dreadful disease. God bless you.

Thank you Deputy Speaker of parliament. We are grateful for saving us from this dreadful disease. God bless you.
kofi 8 years ago

Such an idiot. In future if we need it, we'll go round begging

Such an idiot. In future if we need it, we'll go round begging
kwame sika 8 years ago

oh poor Ghana we talk plenty witout knowing what we are talking about. Really an illiterate in the Country are also found in parliament.They just dont understand what clinical trials are and will not allowed themselves to be ...
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oh poor Ghana we talk plenty witout knowing what we are talking about. Really an illiterate in the Country are also found in parliament.They just dont understand what clinical trials are and will not allowed themselves to be schooled. In any case will the speaker wants to benefit from any other vaccines which all go true trials in other countries. Fire burn them all in professional way!
TEE 8 years ago

KINGDOM RULE BY UNCIVILISED PRIMITIVE THINKLESS MAHAMA

KINGDOM RULE BY UNCIVILISED PRIMITIVE THINKLESS MAHAMA
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

That is the question

That is the question
jackson mantey 8 years ago

ARE YOU TELLING US THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FDA AND UNIVERSITY OF ALLIED HEALTH DECIDED TO GIVE APPROVAL OF THIS DEADLY ACT WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF PARLIAMENT AND THE EXECUTIVE, THIS IS JUST THE WAY NDC IS RULING GHANA. EV ...
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ARE YOU TELLING US THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FDA AND UNIVERSITY OF ALLIED HEALTH DECIDED TO GIVE APPROVAL OF THIS DEADLY ACT WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF PARLIAMENT AND THE EXECUTIVE, THIS IS JUST THE WAY NDC IS RULING GHANA. EVERY MINISTER IS A TIN GOD. THAT IS WHY THE CORRUPTION HAS NO END. MAHAMAH IS CORRUPT HIMSELF, THEREFORE HE CAN NEVER PUNISH NO MINISTER FOR BEING CORRUPT. NEVER HE CANT. THIS MAHAMAH IS JUST A MORON SITTING THERE AS A PRESIDENT.
IT IS BULL SHIT FOR ONE PERSON TO TAKE SUCH A DECISION.
Mary Malone 8 years ago

If Parliament didn't know about the vaccine trials then they are not availing themselves to free access to news that folks like me--who live on the other side of the world--can(and do) easily read every day from sources like ...
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If Parliament didn't know about the vaccine trials then they are not availing themselves to free access to news that folks like me--who live on the other side of the world--can(and do) easily read every day from sources like GhanaWeb.

They should be ashamed to admit that (apparently, if we are to believe they had not knowledge about vaccine trials which had been in the works for months) they are so powerless and backward that normal citizens from around the world can figure out how to access Ghana news...but yet the PMs cannot.

Ghanians should be asking their representatives why they are not keeping up with important new findings and information, regularly written about in local and international news sources.

I think the members of parliament are trying desperately (and, unfortunately for them, transparently) to distance themselves from a decision by the MOH with which parliament had no objections before...but now that political agitators are stirring the Ghanian pot of voters, the parliament members pretend ignorance of what even normal people, politically unconnected to what goes on in Ghana's parliament, readily and, indeed, easily access from Ghana's local, and international, news sources.

This MOH decision did not occur in a vacuum and is not some new situation. These trials have been planned for months now, and discussed frequently in the news.

The members of parliament need to put on their big-boy pants and take responsibility for their lack of intervention months ago--if, indeed, they are so against the vaccine trials.

Otherwise, it looks like the MPs are simply bending over for the outside agitators who seek to build their own strength by taking advantage of the weakness of the MPs.
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

Is Legon in on the deal, any financial rewards for being silent.

Is Legon in on the deal, any financial rewards for being silent.
Mary Malone 8 years ago

Sierra Leone is still involved with an active, increasing Ebola problem.

Sierra Leone is right next to Ghana, making Ghana greatly at risk for getting its own Ebola outbreak going.

The Speaker and the rest of the MPs k ...
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Sierra Leone is still involved with an active, increasing Ebola problem.

Sierra Leone is right next to Ghana, making Ghana greatly at risk for getting its own Ebola outbreak going.

The Speaker and the rest of the MPs know this. They also have either known about the trials for months now and are trying to run away from their complicit agreement with the trials...or they are too stupid to be in Parliament because even I, half-way around the world, only has to read GhanaWeb every day to be informed that the trials have been in the works for months now.

Having people vaccinated is one sure way to quickly stop an Ebola outbreak. If Ghanians are vaccinated against Ebola, there will be no home for Ebola in Ghana.

So if Sierra Leone's Ebola outbreak enters Ghana, and no one is vaccinated and, therefore, easily infected...blame the Speaker. He is the one agitating to try to pass the blame of Parliament (which must have known about the trials for months) on to the MOH.
Kwaku Amexo 8 years ago

Ghanaians enjoy the benefits of vaccines they had not contributed in developing. Diphtheria,pertussis,Tetanus, polio,yellow fever are few vaccines that most Ghanaians use but did not participate in development or clinical tr ...
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Ghanaians enjoy the benefits of vaccines they had not contributed in developing. Diphtheria,pertussis,Tetanus, polio,yellow fever are few vaccines that most Ghanaians use but did not participate in development or clinical trials. Ghanaians want somebody else to be the guinea pig for them to enjoy the benefit?
The least Ghanaians can contribute to improving the health of themselves is to participate in these clinical trials. If the West refuses to give the finished product to Africa you will complain. How can Africa continue to be begging for free things ? This is an opportunity for Ghana to do the clinical trials and open the doors for more trials. Wake up Ghana.
Kofi 8 years ago

Shame to Ghana's parliament. All they know is to act like uneducated people that they truly are! Idiots.

Shame to Ghana's parliament. All they know is to act like uneducated people that they truly are! Idiots.
jnumo@hotmail.com 8 years ago

Why did'nt the researchers test themselves first and the working staff of the world health organization,before crossing into Africa and to ghana.segbefia wear your thinking cap.

Why did'nt the researchers test themselves first and the working staff of the world health organization,before crossing into Africa and to ghana.segbefia wear your thinking cap.

No need to entertain Ebola vacine trial – Deputy Speaker

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