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Gauteng Health says it has enough beds to deal with expected third wave
By Roland Mpofu
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Johannesburg - The Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) says it has enough extra beds at existing hospitals to cater for the expected third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
As a result, the GDoH decommissioned and closed the controversial R250 million Nasrec quarantine and field hospital which was grossly underutilised with empty beds even at the peak of the first and second waves of the pandemic.
There have been concerns as to why the department decommissioned the Nasrec Field Hospital in the wake of the looming Covid-19 third wave which has been predicted by health experts to start next month or early in May. However, GDoH spokesperson Motalatale Modiba said it was due to the expansion of the public health-care system that has seen 4265 functional beds being added and the evidence-based, scientific advice given by the provincial modelling team.
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