INSETA NEWSLETTER

Roll out of the Vaccination for PSET Staff

Blade Nzimande Higher Education Science and Innovation

The Department of Higher Education Science and Innovation through the Higher Health Directorate has identified workers in the education sector as high risk and high economic contributors. Therefore, they qualify for priority vaccination in the phase 2 rollout. Considering this, the Department of Health (DoH) has committed to support priority vaccination of PSET staff, and the final authorisation is awaited and expected to be imminent from the Inter-Ministerial Committee and the National Command Council. In preparation for this national priority vaccination of PSET staff; the identification of number of staff per age category and at subdistrict level is key. The purpose of this exercise is to secure the number of required vaccines for your institutional staff per accredited location and mapping each accredited location with the closest DoH vaccination centre and assisting further with the allocation

of required vaccines to the vaccination centre. For Higher Health & DoH to fast-track this process, we kindly request information from all staff that are employed at the Inseta. The excel sheet template that was provided to all SETAs requires the following information: For Higher Health & DoH to fast-track this process, requested information from all staff that are employed at your institution. The ETQA Department will send out an excel sheet template where information to be required in terms of staff numbers.

We thank all of you for submitting your information timeously to us.

MAY - JUNE 2021

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