Simnikiwe Hlatshaneni Nurses have raised the alarm that Gauteng is facing staffing challenges and equipment shortages, while patients are dying in droves. A medic escorts a woman into a hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being treated in the settlement of Kommunarka outside Moscow on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) Gauteng hospital workers in the eye of the raging Covid-19 infection storm say critical care beds and staff shortages are leading to deaths that could have been prevented if the public health sector was better prepared. This as concerns are raised that hospitals themselves are also fast becoming super-spreaders among staff and patients, while excess deaths have shot up by over 2,000 in the last weeks of last month. I have never seen anything like what
South Africa - Durban -13 May 2021 - Management at St Augustine s Hospital in Durban said that healthcare workers arrived at the facility for the Covid-19 vaccine without having registered first, which has led to long queues inside and outside their vaccination centre. Picture: Bongani Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA)
Sisonke study ends: Health workers await advice on Phase 2 vaccinations
By Karen Singh
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DURBAN - AS SOUTH Africa starts Phase 2 of the Covid-19 vaccination rollout today, healthcare workers (HCWs) who were not vaccinated in the Sisonke Johnson & Johnson study await to hear from the government how they will be included in this next phase.