To Speed Up Administration, Lesotho is Flying Doctors with COVID-19 Vaccines to Remote Areas

Lesotho flying doctors delivering jabs to health workers in remote areas

Residents of remote villages in Lesotho, unlike many other African countries, have been carried along in the country’s vaccination program.

In an attempt to flatten the curve of COVID-19 on all fronts, the Lesotho Flying Doctors Services are flying to deliver badly needed vaccines to the deep parts of the country.

Delivering the vaccines via light aircraft has come as a worthy development in the country that is characterized by a large populace who reside in remote settlements.

The Lesotho Flying Doctors Services have also been delivering the jabs to health workers in remote areas.

“Of course the virus will come here, because human beings live here”, said Kuebunyani resident, Frank Molefi.

This nurse with the Lesotho Flying Doctor Services says she’s is “not comfortable” with the slow pace of the rollout.

“We are not comfortable. Yes, it’s not fair to everyone, we need to roll out vaccination as fast as possible because this pandemic is killing people”, Mampho Leleka said.

The Lesotho Flying Doctors Services campaign comes as some world leaders meet at the G7 summit, with vaccine donations expected to be high on the agenda.

Meanwhile, Lesotho like many other African countries have lagged in the vaccination program against COVID-19.

While more than 2 billion vaccines have been administered across the world, on the African continent just 2% of the population has been vaccinated.

A large volume of the vaccines is from the World Health Organization’s backed COVAX scheme.

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