Tunisian Doctor Suggests to Recruit Vets to Vaccination Campaign against COVID-19

Zaker Lahezab, a Tunisian doctor, has called for recruiting vets who work for either the public or private sector to vaccinate the people against the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Lahezab posted on his page on Facebook, a platform for social media, that the vets have deep knowledge of all villages, families, districts across Tunisia.

They vaccinate all livestock in rural areas many times throughout the year.

He considered that participating of the vets in vaccinating against COVID-19 is a very practical idea and easing the burden off physicians.

He explained that the vets also have four-track cars that may be used in vaccination campaigns.

A number of the vets volunteer to vaccinate the citizens, and they acquire coolers to keep the vaccines in deep cooling for hours.

It is worth noting that all the anti-Corona vaccines must be kept in very deep cooling, some of those vaccines kept under minus seventy Celsius degrees.

However, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday Thursday that Tunisia has registered, since the beginning of July, the highest death toll in Africa and the eastern region of the Mediterranean Sea.

Fawzy Al –Mahdi, Tunisian Minister of Health, revealed that his country got four million doses of the anti-Corona vaccines on Wednesday.

He pointed out that the authorities will start soon an intensified campaign of vaccinating the citizens who want to be vaccinated.

On July 7, Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has announced new measurements to confront the current increase in infections with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.

The Tunisian presidency issues a statement that said that the new measurements include intensifying diplomatic efforts to accelerate imports of the anti-corona vaccines from the producers in either Europe, the United States of America (USA), China, or Russia.

Provincially, teams were formed from the military and security personnel to speed up the pace of vaccination across the country.

It is worth noting that the Tunisian president said that it is time for evaluating the health situation, take a suitable step in light of a number of the confirmed infections in all parts of Tunisia.

Said warned that it is impossible to re-impose the closedown again in the shadow of hard economic and social situations, saying that new measurements should be taken to cope with the challenges of the pandemic.