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As the third wave of Covid-19 infections continues in Gauteng, hospitals remain under severe strain. Gauteng Premier David Makhura this week in a statement said hospital admissions continue to rise and are placing “a heavy strain on the healthcare system in both public and private sectors”. While signs are that infections have peaked in the province, admissions and deaths have not - the latter two typically peak a few weeks later than infections. Add to this the ongoing unrest in certain areas in Gauteng, and it makes for a very grim picture. Makhura this week said many vaccination sites were impacted in the affected areas and ....
Supplied The elderly woman who was pleading for help, in a widely shared video taken at Wentworth Hospital, has died. Rowena Hawkey (69) is seen in the clip seemingly in extreme respiratory anguish, pleading for assistance. Patients are shown lying on the floor and hunched in chairs with no help being administered by medical staff. Hawkey is shown shouting, I can t breathe! Please get me out of here. Hello, hello. Please get this [indistinguishable]. I m going to die like this. This tube here, please give it to me. I ve asked everybody to help me. No one wants to help me. nobody. I can t live like this, she cries. ....
A report from the hospital was also imminent, department spokesperson Agiza Hlongwane added. Shortage of staff Simelane-Zulu said the patients filmed were awaiting their Covid-19 results, also known as Patients Under Investigation (PUIs). On the day in question, the hospital had received a particularly high number of patients, she said. Additionally, 11 doctors were away in isolation, after testing positive. A further 17 nursing staff were off, due to Covid-19. Six nurses were in charge of the Accidents and Emergency Unit, as well as a 28-bed short stay ward with very sick patients. Simelane-Zulu said the delegation from the department has since assisted the hospital to ensure that patient flow is managed properly. ....
Doctors at Steve Biko Academic Hospital say they feel helpless and hopeless to help the scores of patients arriving at the facility daily. Faced with gravely ill patients, a lack of personal protective equipment, overcrowding, increased pressure and poor working conditions, the doctors who spoke to Daily Maverick on condition of anonymity said more and more patients were dying on their watch. Nurses stand at the entrance of the emergency unit at Steve Biko Academic Hospital where they conduct Covid screening on everyone who enters. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed) “I don’t feel like I am being protected by our hospital right now. I am running around like a chicken without a head. I feel very hopeless. I feel like I should not care anymore. Caring is actually just hurting me and the patients because instead of me doing what I said I was going to do when I left medicine, I am treating these people like numbers. Someone dies and you have to shrug your shoulders and move ....
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