‘We feel like there’s hope now:’ KZN healthcare workers get COVID-19 vaccine KZN has received 10,800 of the 80,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses that have touched down in the country so far. Dr Nerika Maharaj, the first health-care worker to be vaccinated in KwaZulu-Natal. Picture: Nkosikhona Duma/EWN
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DURBAN – There was general excitement at Durban s Prince Mshiyeni Hospital where the official COVID-19 vaccination programme for KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has been launched on Thursday.
The province has received 10,800 of the 80,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses that have touched down in the country so far.
Healthcare workers at the KZN facility told
Eyewitness News that the vaccine was their hope for a safer environment after working throughout the traumatic first and second waves of the virus.
DA gives MEC 24 hours to explain reasons for apparently blocking Covid-19 vaccinations
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) is giving KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu, 24 hours to provide answers after having been made aware of an instruction she gave that healthcare workers should not be vaccinated.
KZN health MEC slams DA accusations that she instructed hospital to postpone vaccinations KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu. Image: Sandile Ndlovu
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu has come under fire from the DA in the province, which claims she gave an instruction to postpone the vaccination of about 40 health-care workers on Wednesday.
The DA claims the instruction was made on a WhatsApp group consisting of staff members from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital.
But the health department slammed the claims, saying the DA was trying to hijack, distort and misrepresent its vaccination roll-out plans in the province. This is a typical DA
Meanwhile, emergency services officials say they have seen a growing number of COVID-19 patients recently.
IPSS s Paul Herbst said, we ve seen a dramatic increase in COVID-related patients so much more that we ve increased our fleet from our daily operations compromise and double up on night operations as well.
They say even private hospitals are overwhelmed and in some cases, they ve had to wait for hours to find a suitable bed.
IPSS s Janus van Schalkwyk said, we ve had patients presented with a heart attack hours apart and in the greater Durban area, we were unable to find even a single cardiac capable hospital to accept these patients.