A year of Covid-19 in SA: 'My biggest fear was not dying but infecting my wife,' says nurse

Lebohang Nkoana, who is a branch secretary for the Democratic Nurses Organisation of South Africa and has been a nurse for eight years, says working during the coronavirus pandemic has been the ’most devastating period of my life’. Picture: Supplied
A year of Covid-19 in SA: 'My biggest fear was not dying but infecting my wife,’ says nurse
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Johannesburg – Covid-19 has wreaked havoc with the lives of many South Africans but for Lebohang Nkoana, a nurse on the frontline at Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, going to work means staring death in the face daily.
Not only has Nkoana recovered from Covid-19, lost colleagues to it and continually dealt with the stigma from family, friends and the community, he also had to contend with no salary increase while he and other nurses fought to keep infected patients alive.

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