Fight against Covid-19 – Member of Parliament Encourage Cameroonians to Get Vaccinated

Since June 10, 2021, elected officials of the National Assembly have been encouraging people to get vaccinated. They have been preaching by example since the beginning of the June ordinary session of Parliamentary sitting.

Locked in doubt since certain deaths said to have been caused by these vaccines, the populations needed to be boosted once again. It is in this vein that before closing the meeting of June 10, the president of the Lower House of Parliament, Cavaye Yéguié Djibril informed his colleagues in the National Assembly that a vaccination point against Covid-19 was installed above the hemicycle, in the VIP lounge of the assembly ground.

There is talk for the nation’s elected officials to receive their first dose of vaccine for those who have not yet received it.  Arrived at the address indicated by the Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, MPs are greeted by two medical staff.

 “We ask a series of questions before proceeding with the vaccination.  It’s about making sure the person can actually get the vaccine,” one of the doctors said. He further explained that the deputy chooses between AstraZeneca and Sinopharm, the two available vaccines.  The actual injection follows, which only lasts a few seconds.  Immediately after that, the elected representative is asked to wait on site for about fifteen minutes, before getting up to continue his day.

 For the Members of Parliament, apart from protecting themselves against this pandemic and protecting their loved ones, it is above all a question of setting an example, of reassuring the population and of building it by actions, on the need to accept the vaccine. 

For the Honorable Rolande Ngo Issi: “I came to be vaccinated for my own health and that of others.  It is about breaking down the psychosis that the vaccine has created in the population.  People have asked themselves a lot of questions.  If the fact that I got the vaccine can encourage other people, that would be good.  I invite my compatriots to do the same.”

Ingrid KENGNE