Durban - COVID issues won’ t leave a Berea restaurateur alone.
Don Hamilton said his businesses were badly affected during the pandemic and he is looking forward to an opportunity in the hospitality industry in the UK.
However, when he went to Windemere Centre for his third jab against the coronavirus this week, clerks from the local pharmacy that was dispensing them told him his second vaccination was not on the computer system.
They nonetheless gave him his third shot.
Hamilton rushed off to the vaccination centre at Moses Mabhida Stadium where he had received his second jab back in June, which was recorded on his vaccination certificate, he said.
“There, I was told they couldn’t do anything to change it (on the computer), because the supervisor was on leave for the next two weeks,” he told The Independent on Saturday.
“My flight is not going to wait for me,” the worried septuagenarian said, hoping to get things in order ahead of his March travel plans. He understands that it’s not enough to have his vaccinations recorded on his card and that they must appear on the computer.
By the time of going to press, neither eThekwini Municipality, nor the Department of Health had been forthcoming with comment about the failure to input Hamilton’s second jab digitally.
However, municipal health officials were scrambling for information, such as Hamilton’s identity number to get to the root of the problem.
City spokesperson Princess Nkabane said the city’s Health Department was currently investigating the matter and would comment upon the conclusion of the investigation.
Vaccination staff at the Windermere Centre vaccination site said Hamilton’s problem wasn’t new. Three such problems came before them yesterday and there had been a number of them in the past.
Pharmacare Pharmacy, which runs the Windermere Centre facility, said it was providing all the necessary support to those who had been vaccinated when they encountered such problems.
The Independent on Saturday