NPHCDA starts online registration of Nigerians for COVID-19 vaccination

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has started online registration of Nigerians interested in taking COVID-19 vaccination before the first batch of the vaccines arrive the country on Tuesday.

NPHCDA, on Monday, announced this in a series of messages posted on social media.

One of the messages cited the agency’s Executive Director, Faisal Shuaib, as saying, “We have provided an e-registration link to enable Nigerians (to) register for the #COVID19Vaccine themselves, obtain their pre-vaccination numbers and schedule their preferred date and time for vaccination.”

An additional message read, “To register for #COVID19 Vaccination, visit our website https://t.co/RVn9HsK1Ga and click on COVID-19 Vaccination e-registration.”

NPHCDA also clearly stated that in the first phase of the inoculation, health care workers, frontline workers, including the military, police, oil and gas workers, Nigerians at the border posts, and strategic leaders among others will be given priority.

In another message, the agency stated that Osindeinde Abodede, a female health care professional, came out as the first person to register for the vaccination.

The message read, “Congratulations, Mrs. Osindeinde Ademilayo Abosede, a frontline health care professional. She is the first to register for the #COVID19 Vaccination.”

In accordance with the test message got by the health care worker when she completed her registration, which was attached to the tweet, she was booked to be vaccinated on March 12, 2021 between 10am and 12 noon in Abuja.

The message read, “Dear Osindeinde Ademilayo Abosede, you have successfully registered and scheduled for the first dose of COVID-19 Vaccine at fc (sic) Abuja Sheraton and Towers Hospital in 2021-03-12 Morning -10am -12noon.”

Her inoculation ID was blurred in the message.

One of Top Naija’s correspondents visited the Electronic Management of Immunisation Data platform on the NPHCDA website.

It indicated that those registering will be required to select their preferred vaccination site, date of vaccination and preferred time slot.

It is also required to upload their photograph apart from their personal details like names, contact phone number and residential address among others.

They will also be supposed to answer questions such as if they work in the health sector, any known medical condition and any history of allergies.

Boss Mustapha, the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, on Saturday revealed that about four million doses of vaccines from the COVAX facility were likely to arrive in Nigeria on Tuesday.

Mustapha, who is likewise the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, had told journalists that the exposé depended on the information that the United Nations Children’s Fund provided.