{"id":200210,"date":"2021-08-31T06:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=106773"},"modified":"2021-08-31T06:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:54:18","slug":"bolt-partners-with-pinkdrive-to-build-momentum-in-sas-vaccination-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/bolt-partners-with-pinkdrive-to-build-momentum-in-sas-vaccination-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt partners with PinkDrive to build momentum in SA\u2019s vaccination programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PinkDrive, has been making the health of vulnerable South Africans a priority since 2009, provides trained vaccinators to public sector vaccination sites in Gauteng, the Western Cape, and KwaZulu Natal, creating work opportunities for nurses who may otherwise not be employed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the primary health care workers that are key to the success of South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 immunisation drive depend on public transport to get them to vaccination sites \u2013 some of which are not on main minibus taxi routes,\u201d says Noelene Kotschan, CEO and founder of PinkDrive. \u201cThis means that they incur extra costs in getting to work each day, and we identified the opportunity to collaborate with Bolt to get these vaccinating heroes to work, door to door, more cost effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making sure that healthcare workers are able to get to vaccination sites is more important than ever, now that South Africa\u2019s vaccination programme is open to anyone over the age of 18 that is registered on the country\u2019s vaccination portal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith so many health care workers being women, we\u2019re proud to say that many of them have opted to use the Bolt Women Only service, which connects women passengers with women drivers,\u201d says Gareth Taylor, Regional Manager for Bolt in Southern Africa. \u201cBolt welcomes the opportunity to work with PinkDrive in making it possible for health care workers to get to work, to add impetus to the country\u2019s vaccination drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Travelling to and from a vaccination site using a ride hailed on Bolt is a great alternative to public transport, as passengers can hail a ride when they\u2019re ready to go \u2013 there\u2019s no waiting for public transport to be available, and the ride will come and collect passengers wherever they are and will take them exactly to where they need to be.<\/p>\n

Bolt drivers also pay particular attention to keeping their vehicles clean and sanitized after each ride, so passengers can be assured of their safety until the full effects of their vaccine are in place.<\/p>\n

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Bolt, the ride-hailing service available in more than 35 South African towns and cities, has partnered with PinkDrive NPC, a community-based health care NGO, to get its health care workers to COVID-19 vaccination sites safely and efficiently. PinkDrive, has been making the health of vulnerable South Africans a priority since 2009, provides trained vaccinators to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200211,"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":[9021,1],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-200210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mypr","8":"category-south-africa","9":"tag-mypr","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bolt-partners-with-pinkdrive-to-build-momentum-in-sas-vaccination-programme.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200210","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=200210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}