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- Health officials with resuscitation teams will be on hand to help in the event someone has an adverse reaction to Covid-19 vaccines.
- The official of the Department of Health, Aquina Thulare, informed the Progressive Business Forum of the ANC about the launch of the vaccine.
- The military will help protect the sites and everyone who receives vaccinations will be logged into a central database.
Health professionals will be on standby at Covid-19 vaccination sites to care for anyone who may have an adverse reaction to vaccines, while the military will be deployed to safeguard distribution.
Those who agree to be vaccinated will receive a vaccination record card and will be assigned a place to go to receive the vaccine.
These are some of the details of the vaccine launch that emerged during a briefing by Aquila Thulare of the Health Department during a Zoom briefing for the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum on Tuesday.
She said:
The vaccination system will be based on a pre-vaccination registration system, which means that we will all have to be in some type of registry to know who has been vaccinated, where they will receive the vaccine and it will be a registration system.
Everyone who has signed up will be assigned a site where they must go to receive their injections, which will help the department keep track of how many people visit a site, but also help the department plan how many vaccines to deliver at a site.
“It also helps us handle those who have to come back a second time,” he said.
To ensure the distribution of vaccines, the vehicles involved will be tracked and monitored to safeguard stocks.
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) will be present at the administration sites “to make sure we protect this vaccine” and for safety reasons, and each dose will be tracked and tracked via a barcode scanning system “, which means that we will have to make sure that we know where each and every vial is used.”
There will also be data verification of the vaccines that have been distributed and administered.
Vaccines need to be disposed of safely, but we also have to make sure we control for waste, he said.
Vaccine distribution
In phase two and three of the vaccine distribution, once target groups such as health workers and the elderly have received their doses, mass vaccinations will be carried out in urban centers of individuals and groups, while pharmacies will be used. , health facilities, community rooms and schools. to administer vaccines.
These sites must be registered and meet a series of requirements.
“We do not want the vaccination program to have a negative impact on the other services that are provided, be it childhood illnesses, maternal services,” he said.
Confidence in vaccines will increase through transparent and effective safety surveillance and causation assessment, Thulare added.
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He said that an electronic vaccination data system was being developed and would build on existing systems.
The information collected by the system would include patient information, such as demographic data and number of doses to be received, the health facility where it is administered, the vaccine administered, safety information, and a vaccination record issued to individuals when necessary.
“For the vaccination program, wherever we are going to be vaccinating at the sites, there will be teams of health professionals who will be ready to handle any adverse effects that occur,” he said. This included resuscitation kits, to ensure that they are taken care of “immediately and effectively”.
The department will also record how many people in the target population receive the vaccine and how many refuse, including the reasons why.
The inter-ministerial vaccine committee established by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday and chaired by Vice President David Mabuza would coordinate the vaccination effort “to ensure that the 40 million South Africans who will make up the 65% [of the population who will be vaccinated] to build (“herd”) immunity are to be vaccinated.
Ministerial advisory committees on technical issues and behavior change will also be available to assist with the effort.
