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Security guards who allegedly assaulted patient at Estcourt Hospital dismissed
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Security guards fired for assault on patient in KZN hospital
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Covid-19: Now PAIA application reveals KZN health department policy
A PAIA application has revealed that the KZN Health Department has a volunteer policy that could have been used during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department (DOH) has refused to respond to concerns raised by the Democratic Alliance (DA) regarding its medical volunteer policy that it did not implement to draw in doctors to assist exhausted frontline medical staff during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This was after the DA announced at the weekend that it had established that, despite ongoing claims that it does not have a medical volunteer policy in place the KZN DOH had in fact had such a document for the past 16 years.
A report from the hospital was also imminent, department spokesperson Agiza Hlongwane added.
Shortage of staff
Simelane-Zulu said the patients filmed were awaiting their Covid-19 results, also known as Patients Under Investigation (PUIs). On the day in question, the hospital had received a particularly high number of patients, she said. Additionally, 11 doctors were away in isolation, after testing positive. A further 17 nursing staff were off, due to Covid-19. Six nurses were in charge of the Accidents and Emergency Unit, as well as a 28-bed short stay ward with very sick patients.
Simelane-Zulu said the delegation from the department has since assisted the hospital to ensure that patient flow is managed properly.
The KwaZulu-Natal government aims to test about 3.2 million people living in the province for HIV in this financial year. On World AIDS Day 2020 (1 December), Premier Sihle Zikalala said so far they had tested only 60.8% or 1.9 million people in the province because of lockdown restrictions that hampered testing efforts.
But Zikalala, who addressed a crowd in Manguzi in the Umkhanyakude District, has big plans to get the HIV programme back on track.
“This is also the moment for us to seize the day,” he said, “and regain our lost ground in the fight against the TB and AIDS epidemics, which was slowed down because of a number of factors, including the disruptions that were brought about by the hard lockdown which sought to arrest the Covid-19 outbreaks.”
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