We re making history : Israel s vaccination drive accelerates
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By James Rothwell
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Jerusalem: The cars are parked bumper to bumper at Jerusalem s Arena stadium, some squashed on to pavements, as hundreds of Israelis arrive for their coronavirus vaccines.
For the past year, the elderly and vulnerable have been forbidden from leaving their homes as the country battles with an explosive infection rate and one of the toughest lockdown regimes in the world. But today they will receive the golden ticket that finally allows them to get on with their lives – and the atmosphere is electric.
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man receives a vaccination against Covid-19 as Israel continues its national vaccination drive
Credit: Reuters
Israel is just nine days into its Covid-19 vaccination drive and already it has inoculated 5.7 per cent of its population –more than five times the 1.2 per cent reached in Britain.
More Israelis have now been vaccinated than have caught the virus and that includes more than 25 per cent of those aged 60 and above.
Such is the power of the world’s fastest vaccination drive, it is predicted that the proportion of over 60s among the critically ill will drop from 70 per cent to just 20 per cent by mid-January.
Vaccination drive hits hurdles as Israelis told to wait months for shots
Most complaints come from largest Health Maintenance Organization members who say after hours waiting on the phone they were given appointments in February or March; Health Minister instructs hospitals to join vaccination effort
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Published: 12.23.20 , 23:18
Israelis wishing to receive their coronavirus vaccines said they were unable to do so because of over-burdened call centers, three days after the national vaccination drive began.
Many complained that if their calls did manage to get through to their Health Maintenance Organizations, they were given an appointment in February or even in March. Most complaints came from members of the largest HMO Clalit.
By Rabiu Sani-Ali
Kano, Dec. 22, 2020 The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) says it has reconciled over N2 billion unpaid claims accrued by Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) for Healthcare Service Providers (HSPs).
The General Manager, Enforcement Department, NHIS, Mr Muhammad Ghali, made this known while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of a stakeholders’ forum on Tuesday in Kano.
Ghali said the amount was recovered by a special committee set up by the management of the scheme, sequel to complaints by the HSPs over backlog payment of services rendered to its enrollees.
He said that over N2 billion was recovered through reconciliation exercise conducted between June and July