The vaccination programme did not greatly ease the burden of Covid-19 in the Western Cape as too few people have been inoculated to have made a significant difference, Professor Marc Mendelson of Groote Schuur Hospital lamented.
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That Schoub, and by implication Mkhize, believes that the public is so intellectually delicate as to crumble when experts debate the wisdom of policies that affect every South African, is extraordinary.
In the past few decades South Africa has seen a catastrophic increase in antibiotic consumption.
The rapid increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria – in South Africa and across the globe – is driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in humans and food-producing animals and poses a huge threat to modern medicine.
This is the view of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Marc Mendelson, the head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital. He has also recently been re-appointed the chairperson of the national Department of Health’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance.