Last week, the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced that it would permit hospitals and health centers, as well as private health clinics to purchase and administer COVID-19 vaccines from local agents or global companies supplying the vaccine. However, the ministry added that this permission was conditional on the private clinics receiving the necessary license and approval from the ministry to provide such services.
In a statement, the ministry said that the permission to provide such services would enable more people to be vaccinated faster. Circular No. 5/2021 issued last week by the Health Licenses Department, said that private clinics would need to complete the necessary digital connections to the ministry’s online platform before starting to provide the vaccination service.
The Ministry stressed the need for the data to match all the requirements of the automated COVID-19 vaccination at the Ministry of Health to issue vaccination certificates, indicating the need for hospitals, health centers, and clinics to be located in a self-contained building and not shared with other treatment institutions and to have vaccination permits from the Health Licensing Department and the commitment to precautionary measures recommended by the Ministry of Health.
The ministry also stressed the need to stick to the standards, specifications, and guidelines related to transporting, storing, and giving the vaccines to the domestic medical sector issued by the producer and from the drug and food control sector. The Ministry affirmed that the service provider bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the data, ensuring its privacy, and following up on the vaccination dates for recipients, along with the responsibility of informing people through SMS about their scheduled dates for taking the doses.
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