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Medical aid members won t be given priority in the queue for Covid-19 jab
9 April 2021 5:32 PM
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The mass vaccination programme is expected to start in May following the arrival of 51 million jabs from various drug makers.
Medical aid members won t be given priority in the queue for Covid-19 vaccine ahead on uninsured patients, once the country s mass vaccination rollout gets underway in May.
That s according to Ron Whelan, the Chief Commercial Officer at Discovery Health, who says the medical aid scheme will be working alongside government to ensure a smooth rollout of the vaccination programme.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that phase two of the vaccination programme will begin on 17 May, after that the country s secured 51 million jabs from various drug makers.
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The Government Employees’ Medical Scheme (Gems) and the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) went to court on Sunday to block the public release of an interim report about racial discrimination against doctors by local medical schemes.
It was due to be released at midday on Sunday at a press conference, but, according to the court documents, the applicants claim “scathing allegations and findings in relation to Gems (and others)”.
And the facts that the state-owned medical aid has not seen the interim report or the investigation’s terms of reference, nor has it been given an opportunity to comment on it, make the public release a contravention of the Medical Schemes Act, the applicants claim.