Chief Nemauzhe of Chivi has bemoaned lack of enough Covid 19 vaccines in his area saying that villagers are slowly giving up getting the doses as they would have walked long distances.
He added that the people were travelling to the vaccination points where they would have been instructed to, only to be told there were not enough doses.
“In my area the problem is that the people are travelling long distances to vaccination centers but they are returning back without being vaccinated because the doses are few.
“This has become a major challenge because some people are no longer able bodied so travelling all the way to said vaccination centers and to be told there were not enough doses was discouraging,” Chief Nemauzhe said.
Some Chivi villagers recently narrated their ordeal to Hevoi Fm news and said they would have sold their chickens for transport fares to vaccinations but only to be turned back due to inadequate doses.
“Some of us would have sold our chicken for transport fares to vaccination centers but we are turned back because the vaccines would have finished,” a villager said.
“We urge the government to introduce mobile vaccination centers in rural villages so that the elderly cannot walk longer,” Another villager said.
The government is urged to roll out the mobile vaccination program especially in remote or rural areas where health facilities are scarce in a move to meet the target vaccinated population of 10 million by year end.
