Covid-19 vaccine registration portal launched
Health minister says it takes about two minutes to complete the registration process.
With the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out programme just days away, the Department of Health launched its electronic vaccine data system on Wednesday, to allow residents to register.
All health workers – clinical and non-clinical, public and private – were invited to join the more than 34 000 health workers already registered onto the system.
Launching the system health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said the department created the system from existing digital infrastructure and would be able to feed off existing data systems.
“Indeed, the national health council recently adopted the 2020 health normative standards framework for digital health interoperability to ensure that different health information platforms talk to each other, providing critical data both at provincial and national levels.
“This online system has been built on the systems and solutions that are already being implemented – capitalising on the health patient registration platform. Numerous other systems will feed into it,” he said.
Mkhize said the system would be able to verify if one was a health worker by checking against the data provided by the existing system.
“Therefore, while it is possible to register on the site if one is not a healthcare worker, the system will automatically prioritise verified health workers for the period of phase one.”
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Based on the design of the system, it used less than one megabyte and approximately two minutes to complete the registration process.
“Any healthcare worker who cannot register will be registered at the vaccination site, it might just take a few minutes longer.
“We would, however, encourage all healthcare workers to register before the inoculation call. This will help us to know how to refine our current allocations and get enough vaccines to the right vaccine centres at the right time.”
Mkhize said anyone who would like to be vaccinated would be able to do so without any cost.
“Although medical aids would cover the cost of the vaccine, if a person cancels the aid in the middle of the process, they will be vaccinated as they would fall under the category of people without medical aid.”
Mkhize said the system would be improved should people flag difficulties.
Health workers can register at https://vaccine.enroll.health.gov.za/
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