Denosa: Some healthcare worker deaths can be attributed to subpar PPEs The union was reacting to the Special Investigating Unit report into COVID-19 PPE procurement. Healthcare workers removing their PPE at the Nasrec Field Hospital in Johannesburg. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News
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JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) on Saturday said some deaths of its members can be squarely attributed to substandard personal protective equipment (PPEs).
The union was reacting to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report into COVID-19 PPE procurement.
The SIU found processes were flouted in the awarding of tenders.
The SIU investigation focused on tenders awarded between April and November following numerous complaints.
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‘In a queue to die’: South Africa nurses work in fear and exhaustion
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Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) make their way out one of the temporary wards dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Nasrec Field Hospital in Soweto, on January 25, 2021. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)
Nthabeleng, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid pandemic, is exhausted and afraid.
Each day, she begins her shift haunted by the dread of contracting coronavirus and dying, leaving behind a five-year-old daughter. She finishes it numb with fatigue, but the fear has remained.
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Gauteng Health MEC Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi visits Nasrec Field Hospital to assess the facility s response to COVID-19.
Gauteng MEC for Health Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi visited the Nasrec Field Hospital on Monday as part of the ongoing work by the Gauteng Provincial Government to assess the COVID-19 response by facilities.
EWN reporter Thando Kubheka has the story.
Gauteng MEC for Health Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi basically held this media briefing together with other heads of department to give an overview of the province s response to COVID-19. The Nasrec Field Hospital is one of the few facilities for the province s response to this virus.