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South Africa - Durban -13 May 2021 - Management at St Augustine s Hospital in Durban said that healthcare workers arrived at the facility for the Covid-19 vaccine without having registered first, which has led to long queues inside and outside their vaccination centre. Picture: Bongani Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA)
Sisonke study ends: Health workers await advice on Phase 2 vaccinations
By Karen Singh
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DURBAN - AS SOUTH Africa starts Phase 2 of the Covid-19 vaccination rollout today, healthcare workers (HCWs) who were not vaccinated in the Sisonke Johnson & Johnson study await to hear from the government how they will be included in this next phase.
“Workers go to work to sell their labour power, not to sell their lives.”
So said the national leadership of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) after firefighters had, for more than 12 hours, battled a blaze that engulfed a section of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital for two days.
The fire broke out in a special dispensary storage room at about 11am on Friday.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire. No casualties have been reported.
A decision has been made to shut down the hospital for the next seven days and about 400 patients, including 13 Covid-19 cases, have been transferred to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, the Tshwane District Hospital and other hospitals in the province.
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