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LEPOSA fumes over Covid-19 treatment
MASERU-THE Lesotho Police Staff Association (LEPOSA) has accused the police authorities of turning a blind eye to their plight after four officers died of Covid-19.
The Leposa spokesman, Constable Motlatsi Mofokeng, told thepost yesterday that a further four police officers have been admitted at a hospital with Covid-19.
“Three of them have since been discharged while the fourth one is battling for his life,” Constable Mofokeng said.
He said they still have some police officers who are showing some symptoms associated with Covid-19 but are at their homes.
The four dead police officers were from Maseru Rural (Mazenod), Roma, Leribe and Butha-Buthe.
Hospitals run out of oxygen
MASERU-Lesotho is battling a serious shortage of oxygen leading to a surge in Covid-19 deaths,
thepost heard this week.
That is according to the deputy spokesman for the Coalition of Health Professionals (CPH) Dr Mojakisane Ramafikeng
Dr Ramafikeng told thepost yesterday that “for a long time we have been complaining and advising the government to make oxygen available”.
“We are still complaining of a lack of oxygen even today,” Dr Ramafikeng said, adding that where he works at the Queen ’Mamohato Memorial Hospital “we do not have that problem here”.
“But, professionals from different hospitals countrywide are complaining as we are talking now that there is a dire lack of oxygen and people are dying because of that,” he said.
The right call
THE decision by Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro to impose a total lockdown is coming four weeks late after the proverbial horses have bolted.
Late as it is, we however think it was the right call to make.
As early as December last year, the alarm bells were already being sounded over the potential threat Basotho migrant workers would pose if they were allowed to come back home.
The government did absolutely nothing to stop the illegal movement of people.
There were no tests at the borders.
Four weeks later, we are beginning to see the fatal cost of our indecisiveness and prevarication; the numbers of those infected by Covid-19 and those who have unfortunately died have gone up astronomically.
MASERU-“THERE are bullets flying.”
These are the words of Liketso Mochochoko, a doctor on the forefront in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
With beds full at some hospitals, no breathing machines and lack of expertise to deal with the virus amid a surge in numbers of infections, medical experts are treating this as a war.
Bodies are piling up at mortuaries, and the country is in panic mode.
Health personnel such as Dr Mochochoko are putting their lives on the line to try and save the nation from a pandemic that has brought the entire world to its knees.