Treasury has arrived at the vaccine party, says health minister

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The Treasury has “come to the party” and confirmed that it will pay for the majority of the population to receive Covid-19 vaccinations, when they become available, health minister Zweli Mkhize told MPs on Thursday.

Mkhize said that while the government has agreed to accept some help from the private sector — medical schemes have offered to cover the cost of their own members and subsidise a number of public sector patients — the Treasury has confirmed that it will authorise the necessary deviations to enable procurement.

The Treasury has been slow to step up to the challenge of procuring a vaccine and did not pay the initial deposit to secure SA’s place in the Covax global vaccine initiative in December. The deposit — R327m — which Explaining why this had been necessary, Mkhize said the “Treasury advised that what we needed to do is to raise the money so there would be no need to tamper with the budget framework tabled [in October] and so we needed to look at what could be done to get additional support from the Solidarity Fund”.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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And we know who that majority of people will be!!

we realy need that vaccine insatantly as we speak... we are like animals here in hospitals.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago chris_grey2 you are genuine sir 🤝

All hail treasury.. It can pledge all the money in the bank to whatever cause but if it ain't physically in the bank it ain't going to happen..

I did not know Tito was the problem.

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