Japan’s US$2.8M support delivers 22 all-terrain vehicles to reinforce vaccination in Mozambique

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Japan’s US$2.8M support delivers 22 all-terrain vehicles to reinforce vaccination in Mozambique

10:17 CAT | 24 Nov 2023

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Japanese Cooperation has delivered 22 all-terrain vehicles equipped with refrigeration systems to the Mozambican Ministry of Health, to support its Expanded Vaccination Programme (PAV), an investment of US$2.8 million (€2.6 million), it was announced on Monday.

The delivery of the vehicles was completed in Maputo on Monday by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The support also involves four containerized trucks, which are expected to arrive in Mozambique in May next year, aiming to “strengthen the activities” of the country’s vaccination programme.

A source from the Ministry of Health remarked that the vehicles would “boost the sector’s transport and supply chain for vaccines and medicines”, and support the provision of services in health units and, through mobile brigades, to more distant communities.

“The 22 vehicles will be distributed across all 11 provinces of the country, to provide greater capacity for the vaccine distribution chain, which requires low temperatures during distribution from provincial and intermediate warehouses to the district and community level,” added the same source.

The Ministry of Health last October delivered 33 vehicles acquired with support from the World Bank, to the same number of districts – the first batch of a total of 75 to be acquired in this way.

Source: Lusa