Primary Healthcare Agency begins online registration for Covid-19 vaccination

THE National Primary Health Care Development Agency has told Nigerians interested in taking Covid-19 vaccination that they can now register online as it has made provision for the process.

The agency noted that the development became necessary in preparation for the arrival of the first batch of the nation’s vaccines, tomorrow.

The agency disclosed this in a series of messages posted on its Twitter handle, @NphcdaNG, today.
“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,” one of the messages quoted the agency’s Executive Director, Faisal Shuaib, as saying.

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

However, the agency stressed that the priority would be given to health care workers, frontline workers, including the military, police, oil and gas workers, Nigerians at the border posts, and strategic leaders among others in the first phase of the vaccination.

To assure Nigerians that the process has begun in earnest, NPHCDA disclosed in another message that a female healthcare professional, Osindeinde Abodede, emerged the first person to register for the vaccination.

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

According to the text message received by the healthcare worker after completing 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.”
His vaccination ID was blurred in the message.