A month after being appointed as Gauteng’s health MEC, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko believes her embattled department has a ‘fighting chance’ of addressing concerns raised by the Auditor-General and members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa).
Public hospitals are seeing a significant spike of Covid-19 admissions as the country stares at the possibility of sinking into the third wave by next week.
The Gauteng department of health has assigned additional health workers at facilities which had to accommodate hundreds of patients evacuated from the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg which was gutted by fire.
Vaccine roll out starts at Bara in effort to curb spread of Covid-19
By Botho Molosankwe
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Johannesburg - The race to curb the further spread of Covid-19 in Gautengâs epicentre unfolded on Wednesday afternoon at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.
This is after South Africa received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Tuesday evening.
With 157 953 confirmed positive cases and 2 969 deaths, Johannesburg has been the worst hit by Covid-19 followed by Ekurhuleni with 85 843 cases and 2 147 deaths.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura was at Chris Hani Baragwanath and Steve Biko Academic Hospital to oversee as the vaccination programme, which officially commenced in the country on Wednesday.
Dr Steve Mankupane, acting CEO of Soweto's Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, will be among the first health workers in Gauteng to be vaccinated against the coronavirus on Wednesday.