Nine Mediclinic facilities to start vaccinating those 60 and over from Monday.
As of Wednesday, 558 170 people had been vaccinated.
Mediclinic likely to expand vaccination sites to
43 across the country.
From Monday, 24 May, nine Mediclinic hospitals will serve as Covid-19 vaccination centres for Phase 2 of the rollout.
Mediclinic Morningside, Mediclinic Medforum, Mediclinic Bloemfontein, Mediclinic Pietermaritzburg, Mediclinic Geneva in George, Mediclinic Gariep in Kimberley, Mediclinic Cape Gate, Mediclinic Vergelegen and Mediclinic Milnerton would start administering the Pfizer vaccine.
Mediclinic is one of the private groups that the government had designated to assist in vaccinating people aged 60 and above with the two-dose Pfizer vaccine.
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The vaccine rollout sites has been expanded to include 13 private hospitals as the Sisonke Programme gains momentum.
Among the considerations employed in the selection of the private hospital sites were the numbers of Covid-19 cases treated to date, their proximity to research and other healthcare facilities within their catchment areas, and to enable as wide a geographic spread of the vaccine rollout as possible with the limited numbers of vaccine doses available.
At each site, the National Department of Health requires that facilities first vaccinate their own workers at risk and those of the selected limited hospital identified in their catchment areas. The National Department of Health has introduced risk stratification into the EVDS as follows:
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GEORGE NEWS - Mediclinic George cancelled all elective surgeries as a result of the second wave of Covid-19 infections at the end of last year. The decision was not based on the risk of infection, as all protocols are in place to ensure our patients safety, but rather to increase potential capacity for Covid-related admissions. Capacity at the hospital was under pressure, said Dr Gerrit de Villiers, chief clinical officer of Mediclinc Southern Africa.
He responded to a query from George Herald regarding long waiting times for elective surgery for people who are urgently in need of elective surgery.