Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, has commended Edendale Hospital for its level of preparedness to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n
Nzimande visited the hospital in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, as part of Cabinet\u2019s decision for the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Vaccines to visit and to monitor preparations of hospitals, clinics and other vaccine distribution centres.<\/p>\n
This is so as to ensure efficiencies in vaccine warehousing, distribution and deliveries. <\/p>\n
Part of the monitoring measures include checking whether the identified facilities have adequate vaccine storage, and stringent security measures to safeguard the vaccines.<\/p>\n
Edendale is amongst the leading hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal to administer COVID-19 inoculations.<\/p>\n
The hospital is the fourth biggest hospital in the country and is designated as a regional hospital which offers district tertiary services with a total of 900 beds.<\/p>\n
The Minister said he was satisfied with the level of preparedness by the hospital and congratulated hospital management, and the provincial government for a job-well done.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m impressed by the proactive and innovative measures introduced by the hospital to manage COVID-19. These include the establishment of a flu clinic since March 2020. The clinic is used to screen all patients and visitors to the hospital at the point of entry,\u201d Nzimande said.<\/p>\n
Nzimande reiterated that the arrival of vaccines does not suggest the relaxation of COVID-19 health protocols, which includes the wearing of masks, sanitisation and social distancing. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, has commended Edendale Hospital for its level of preparedness to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Nzimande visited the hospital in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, as part of Cabinet\u2019s decision for the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Vaccines to visit and to monitor preparations of hospitals, clinics and other vaccine distribution […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-181525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}