Shugabannin kasashen Afirka da suka hada da Paul Kagame na Rwanda da Nana Akuffo Ado na Ghana da kuma shugaban kungiyar Tarayyar Afirka Moussa Faki Mahamat sun halarci bikin kaddamar da shafin BioNTech na farko a Rwanda.
Kamfanin fasahar kere-kere na Jamus na neman kafa cibiyar samar da alluran rigakafi ta farko a nahiyar da nufin bunkasa hanyoyin samun mRNA jabs a Afirka.
Kamfanin harhada magunguna ya ce ya kafa rukunin da zai samar da alluran rigakafin cututtuka daban-daban a Afirka.
Wanda ya kafa kuma Shugaba na BioNTech yayi cikakken bayanin manufofin kamfaninsa a Afirka, “Muna so mu ba da gudummawa don gina yanayin muhalli mai dorewa, mai jurewa. Mahimman gudummawar da muke bayarwa a nan Afirka a bayyane yake. Dole ne a samar da alluran rigakafin da za a iya yi a nan gaba a Afirka, ga Afirka, don magance bukatun yanki da ka’idojin duniya.”
Aikin na dala miliyan 150 alama ce ta wani yunƙuri na hukumomi da yawa na guje wa maimaita rarraba allurar rigakafin cutar ta Covid-19 a duniya wanda ya ga an fifita yankuna kamar Turai akan ƙasashen kudanci na duniya.
Shugaba Kagame ya yaba da wani mataki mai cike da ban mamaki.
“Ba a ma iya yin allurar mRNA a Afirka ba. An ce yana da rikitarwa ga tsarin lafiyar mu. Bayan haka, lokacin da muka fara wannan tafiya don kera waɗannan alluran rigakafin a nahiyarmu, an gaya mana cewa za a ɗauki aƙalla shekaru 30 Wannan ba daidai ba ne. Yana yiwuwa. Kuma saboda yana yiwuwa, shi ma ya zama dole.
Bikin wanda ya samu halartar Firaministan Barbados da shugabar hukumar Tarayyar Turai Ursula von der Leyen da sauran manyan baki.
BioNtech na sa ran kammala gina masana’antar a shekarar 2024 sannan ta fara aiki a shekara mai zuwa.
Kamfanin ya ce zai dauki ma’aikatan cikin gida kusan 100 aiki tare da horar da su wajen samar da sabbin rigakafin ta hanyar amfani da sabuwar fasahar mRNA.
Daga nan ne Rwanda za ta raba alluran rigakafin ga kungiyar Tarayyar Afirka mai mambobi 55.
An yi ginin Kigali ne daga jigilar kaya da aka sake sarrafa kuma yana zaune a kan fili murabba’in mita 35,000.
An kaddamar da cibiyar rigakafin mRNA ta farko a Afirka a watan Afrilu a birnin Cape Town na Afirka ta Kudu.
An kafa shi tare da tallafin Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya, aikin na Cape Town yana gudana ne karkashin kamfanin Biovac na Afirka ta Kudu, da kamfanin fasahar kere-kere na Afrigen da kuma Majalisar Binciken Kiwon Lafiya ta Afirka ta Kudu.
Cibiyar tana da yuwuwar faɗaɗa ƙarfin masana’anta don sauran alluran rigakafi da samfuran, kamar insulin don magance ciwon sukari, magungunan kansa da, mai yuwuwa, alluran rigakafin cututtuka kamar zazzabin cizon sauro, tarin fuka da HIV.
Africanews/Ladan Nasidi.
