Public-private collaboration is key to successful vaccination drive
Business needs to display a heightened approach to health risk management around Covid-19
SA’s Sisonke vaccine early access programme is well under way: since the first doses were administered to healthcare workers on February 17, the country’s public and private sectors have come together to keep up the momentum and have now administered more than 150,000 doses to key front-line healthcare workers. This includes our own healthcare workers at Life Healthcare hospitals.
There have, of course, been challenges to establish an immunisation drive like this: as SA Medical Research Council president Prof Glenda Gray has pointed out, to set up a vaccination programme of this size would typically take nine or 10 months, and in effect SA had a matter of weeks...
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