Momentum Metropolitan receives vaccines at its four mass vaccination centres
By BR Reporter
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Insurance-based financial services group Momentum Metropolitan Holdings has announced that it will receive limited stock of Covid-19 vaccines at the end of this week.
The company said this enabled their mass vaccination centres in Sandton and Cape Town to open on Friday. Their Centurion and Durban centres will open on Monday, June 7.
The centres are open to any South African who has registered on the Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS) and is directed to the groupâs mass vaccination centres via the system.
Momentum Health Solutions chief marketing officer Damian McHugh said: âItâs a privilege to play our part and be the first insurer to open up multiple sites nationally to assist a broader grouping of South Africans. We are not yet operating at full capacity as the supply of vaccines is still limited, but once we have adequate vaccine supplies, we will be able
Momentum Metropolitan secures accreditation for four mass vaccination centres
By Dieketseng Maleke
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INSURANCE company Momentum Metropolitan has announced that it has secured accreditation for four mass vaccination centres.
The company said it had completed the registration and accreditation of vaccination centres in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria, and expects to start administering vaccines later this week in Gauteng, depending on the delivery of the first vaccine consignments.
“The coastal centres are expected to follow suit next week, again dependent on the delivery of the vaccine consignments,” it said.
Momentum Health Solutions executive head Damian McHugh said the company has 20 registered nurses per site.
South African medical schemes may no longer need to step in to subsidise COVID-19 vaccines for the wider population after the government allocated significant funds for the vaccine rollout, executives told Reuters on Thursday.
South African medical schemes may no longer need to subsidise COVID vaccines: executives
FILE PHOTO: Vial, syringe and small toy figures are seen in front of displayed South Africa flag in this illustration
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African medical schemes may no longer need to step in to subsidise COVID-19 vaccines for the wider population after the government allocated significant funds for the vaccine rollout, executives told Reuters on Thursday.
Medical schemes, funds that pool member contributions to cover healthcare costs, have been in talks with the government over funding vaccines for those without access to private health cover as well as their own members.
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After the government allocated significant funds for the vaccine rollout.
By Emma Rumney, Reuters
25 Feb 2021 15:57
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South African medical schemes may no longer need to step in to subsidise Covid-19 vaccines for the wider population after the government allocated significant funds for the vaccine rollout, executives told Reuters on Thursday.
Medical schemes, funds that pool member contributions to cover healthcare costs, have been in talks with the government over funding vaccines for those without access to private health cover as well as their own members.
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