All will be vaccinated, assures Gauteng Health amid long queues at hospitals
The Gauteng Department of Health has moved to assure all healthcare workers in the province that nobody will be excluded from its vaccination drive.
The department says the demand from frontline health workers to be inoculated against Covid-19 has been growing the launch of the programme on Wednesday.
This resulted in some healthcare workers flooding Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Tshwane on Sunday out of the fear that the vaccine might run out before they receive their jabs.
Gauteng Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi says there is no need to panic.
“We want to reassure our healthcare workers that there is no need to panic as none of them will be left behind. To do so would be catastrophic and will leave the system exposed as they are in integral part of the healthcare system.
“The implementation study is being rolled out in phases, which started with the Steve Biko Academic Hospital and the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital to both private and public frontline workers. All our facilities in the province will be covered as the vaccine doses gets delivered to the province.”
Gauteng has received 16 800 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which are being administered at Chris Hani Baragwanath in Soweto and Steve Biko in Tshwane.
Mokgethi says by Sunday the province had managed to vaccinate 2 134 healthcare workers.
“We are encouraged by the commitment shown by the healthcare workers and organised labour. The demand to get vaccinated has been growing since this programme started.”
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