‘Doctors’ wives’ jump Covid queue - The Mail & Guardian

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Doctors and specialists in the private sector are abusing the national electronic vaccine data system to secure Covid-19 inoculations for their wives and employees who don’t come into contact with patients.

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Word of inadequate on-site verification and instructions on how to fraudulently register is spreading rapidly through private SMSes. has seen an SMS written in Afrikaans by a scammer claiming he was vaccinated last week and providing details of how to manipulate the system.

Another SMS confirms that the scammer has been successfully “enrolled into the J&J Sisonke vaccine programme. We look forward to welcoming you at Universitas hospital. Your voucher number is AV… This voucher, along with your ID document/passport, is required at the vaccination site. For public sector HCW’s [healthcare workers], please contact the vaccine site directly. The vaccination roster for private HCW’s [sic] is through the hospital or GP organisations.

“They simply say the person is employed by them and is patient-facing, which is really difficult to verify. One doctor’s wife told us she was a real estate agent who works at his practice at weekends,” a well-placedBaragwanath spokesperson Nkosinathi Mazibuko said doctors cheating the system were the biggest problem. “With our own staff, we can verify that they work for us, and we request each section to give us a list of names in advance.

“People are supposed to bring their IDs and the health professions council practice number with them. We’re tightening up and verification will be based on a couple of things, like ID, MP [medical practice] number, persal [public sector employees] number and letters from their institution to ensure no one takes advantage.”

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Surely this is the wright thing to do? The dr is vaccinated but the wife not.

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