UK govt donates rabies vaccines and lab consumables to MoFA [Video]

The UK government through its Animal Health System Strengthening (AHSS) project, has donated fifteen thousand (15,000) doses of rabies vaccines and laboratory equipment and consumables to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).

The donation coincided with the World Veterinary Day commemoration, and was used to fulfil a pledge made last September during the celebration of World Rabies Day, to support Ghana’s vision to eliminate human death from dog mediated rabies by the year 2030.

Speaking at a brief ceremony at the ministry to hand over the vaccines and the laboratory equipment, the Development Director of the British High Commission in Accra, Richard Sandall, commended MoFA for their crucial role in preventing and controlling known and emerging animal diseases and, to a large extent, protecting public health in the country.

He stated that Ghana is one of the UK’s longest standing and strongest partners in Africa and the AHSS project …