AMMAN — As the country eagerly awaits loosened lockdown
restrictions, private hospitals move to start providing the
COVID-19
vaccination.
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Fawzi Al-Hammouri, the head of Jordan’s Private Hospitals
Association, announced that private hospitals will begin providing vaccinations
for free through the vaccination platform (
vaccine.jo) next week.
“Our aim is to be able to provide vaccines for every
citizen,” Hammouri told Jordan News. “By providing the vaccines in private
hospitals, we will be able to ease the process and reach even more people,
especially those who already have files in certain private hospitals.”
Head of the Health Committee at Lower House, Ahmad Sarahneh,
told
Jordan News, that “cooperating with private hospitals will be of great
help to reach bigger numbers of vaccinated citizens, and it will also ease the
burden off of health centers. I firmly believe that vaccines are the only key
that will get the country back on its feet.”
Although Minister of State for Media Affairs, Sakhr Dudin,
announced in Sunday’s press conference that around 10 million vaccines are
currently available in the country, only 1.2 million people have registered for
the vaccine platform so far. The Ministry of Health has stated that it hopes to
vaccinate 6 million people in order to reach herd immunity and return to
normalcy.
Hammouri hopes that providing the vaccines in private
hospitals is the first step to accomplish that goal. “Our plan, in cooperation
with the Ministry of Health and Crisis Management, is to give 100,000 jabs a
day. In order to reach that number, we need to increase vaccination centers all
around the country. However, the most essential step is for citizens to get
vaccinated,” he said, adding that unwillingness of citizens to register “will
keep us from moving forward.”
Dudin also stressed in the conference that it is “important
to strike a balance between citizens’ health and the economy,” suggesting that
a plan to completely open the sectors and return to normal life might be
implemented on July 1st. He said that vaccinations will be needed to accomplish
that plan.
MP Khalil Attieh, the head of the Parliamentary Committee in
charge of following up on the House of Representatives’ recommendations related
to the effects of the pandemic, also said in the conference that the aim of the
government parliament meeting was to “remind the government of the House’s and
the committee’s demands to open all sectors to mitigate the severe damage which
they have suffered.”
He also requested that the government make decisions on
Monday to open all sectors while taking the required precautions to control the
epidemiological situation as part of the country’s “partial opening” before
proceeding to a full opening on July 1st if all goes according to plan.
Attieh also stated that “the majority of deputies requested
that Taraweeh prayers are held and restaurants are open on the days when the
lockdown was in effect” and that “the government’s action would be subject to
Parliament’s oversight.”
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