KZN health dept: We still have no clarity on COVID vaccine rollout But KwaZulu-Natal’s Health Department head doctor Sandile Tshabalala has told the province’s health portfolio committee that staff members will be ready once the plan has been shared. Picture: 123rf.com
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DURBAN - While the country prepares to receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines this week, health authorities in KwaZulu-Natal said they were yet to receive clarity from the national department regarding the rollout.
But KwaZulu-Natal’s Health Department head doctor Sandile Tshabalala has told the province’s health portfolio committee that staff members will be ready once the plan has been shared.
Health Committee unhappy with KZN Health Departmentâs Covid-19 vaccine roll-out plan
By Thobeka Ngema
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Durban - Members of the Portfolio Committee on Health ripped into the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department after they were briefed on health-care services in relation to Covid-19 and on challenges they were facing.
Most of the concerns of the portfolio committee were the departmentâs vaccine roll-out plan, public hospital mortuary capacity and oxygen supply.
Both KZN Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu and head of department Dr Sandile Tshabalala addressed the committee.
Simelane-Zulu said funerals were KZNâs super-spreader events after they cancelled major events. There was also reluctance in eliminating night vigils.
Alcohol sales ban will free up hospital beds for COVID-19 patients - KZN Health KZN Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu said that the provincial government had moved with great speed to create capacity in various ways to try and manage the spread of the virus. FILE: KZN Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu (centre) briefs the media on 2 June 2020 at the launch of a 275-bed quarantine site at Durban’s Clairwood Hospital for COVID-19 patients. Picture:@kznhealth/Twitter.
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JOHANNESBURG - The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department said that following the ban on the sale of alcohol, it believes that more beds will be made available in the province for COVID-19 patients.
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Health minister Zweli Mkhize lit candles for those who have died as a result of Covid-19 this year.
Mkhize was in KwaZulu-Natal with the province s premier and health MEC on New Years Eve for the candle lighting ceremony.
At a in Cape Town, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared 2020 as the year of the health worker.
Health minister Zweli Mkhize led a candle lighting ceremony in KwaZulu-Natal on New Year s Eve to pay tribute to the more than 28 000 people who have lost their lives to Covid-19 in 2020 as the daily new cases reach 18 000
Mkhize along with KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala and health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu lit candles at the King Edward Hospital hospital as a tribute, and also honoured healthcare workers. Mkhize announced that the country had breached the 18 000 mark in terms of daily infections and that, as of Thursday, 436 people had died from Covid-19, bringing the death toll to 28 469.