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Masego Mafata, GroundUp The Gauteng Department of Health has received mixed reactions to it taking over ambulance services. A provincial service ambulance outside the Nasrec quarantine and isolation site on July 03, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Dino Lloyd)
The City of Johannesburg’s fleet of ambulances has decreased from 100 to 40 since the province began taking over ambulances last year.
And as Gauteng battles in the midst of a third wave of Covid-19 infections, the remaining ambulances were suspended two weeks ago, causing more strain on the service.
The remaining 40 were suspended because the City cannot provide ambulance services without a licence to operate, said spokesperson of the City’s Emergency Management Services, Robert Mulaudzi. Part of the provincialisation process requires municipalities to apply
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There has been enough debate and deliberation around South Africa’s proposed National Health Insurance Bill for unified health coverage. Covid-19 has turned the spotlight on it again, and there’s more news expected in February 2021.
I FEEL GOOD,” WERE THE LAST WORDS 33-YEAR-OLD Charlie Mpogeng remembers his brother, Herman Motlhabane, saying to him before his untimely passing on the morning of July 17.
Motlhabane died, his relatives not knowing it was because of Covid-19 as his test results were only made available two weeks after his passing.
He had complained of a flu before being hospitalized.