Even as the country seems to be moving to contain the spread of the corona virus, teachers in Nakuru county now want the ministry of health to send its officials to schools to enable them get the Covid-19 jab.
Teachers who spoke to scholarmedia.africa, said that majority of them have not been vaccinated even as schools reopened for the third term.
According to the teachers, accessing the vaccine has not been easy as some are forced to trek for long distances to get it.
“I’m yet to get the jab because I live far from the health facility where it is being administered from and I haven’t been able to make time to travel,” said Peter Njeru, a primary school teacher with an underlying health condition.
Peter wants the jabs to be taken to schools saying that it will save them time and money.
Agnes Nderitu, a secondary school teacher says that the long list of those intending to get the jab and the limited number of available vaccines has prevented her from getting the jab.
“I went there four times and I gave up because whenever I went the line was too long and I couldn’t wait. It reached a point where they told us that the vaccines had run out of stock,” she said.
An official from the county department of health who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the county has few vaccines left and cannot guarantee that all teachers will and can receive the jab at their working stations.
He however stated that arrangements can be made between individual schools and the department of health whenever vaccines are available.
At least 10,000 teachers have received the COVID-19 jab in Nakuru county with majority yet to receive it.
According to the ministry of health and the Teachers Service Commission(TSC), a total of 154,000 teachers across the country had received the jab as of Monday 5th of May when learning was resuming in schools.
Data from TSC shows that a total of 37 teachers have succumbed to the virus among them 24 high school principals, 3 deputy principles and 10 classroom teachers.
