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The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, received a briefing from the Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize on, among other things, progress on the rollout of the vaccines in the country.
Minister Mkhize is going to appear before the committee soon as part of his regular updates to the committee on the rollout of Phase 2 of the vaccination programme and other issues.
Dr Dhlomo said he has noted that the Pfizer vaccine has its limitations in that the vaccine is available in the metros and big cities. He told Minister Mkhize that other methods are needed to ensure that there is rollout of the vaccine in the rural and farming communities. Dr Dhlomo said Minister Mkhize is aware and mindful of the challenges that the Pfizer vaccine presents, hence the continued alternatives to source Sinopharm and Sputnik
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Lebohang Nkoana, who is a branch secretary for the Democratic Nurses Organisation of South Africa and has been a nurse for eight years, says working during the coronavirus pandemic has been the âmost devastating period of my lifeâ. Picture: Supplied
A year of Covid-19 in SA: My biggest fear was not dying but infecting my wife,â says nurse
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Johannesburg â Covid-19 has wreaked havoc with the lives of many South Africans but for Lebohang Nkoana, a nurse on the frontline at Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, going to work means staring death in the face daily.
Not only has Nkoana recovered from Covid-19, lost colleagues to it and continually dealt with the stigma from family, friends and the community, he also had to contend with no salary increase while he and other nurses fought to keep infected patients alive.