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Covid-19: Eastern Cape's worst fear realised as hospitals fill up

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The worst fear of the people of the Eastern Cape is now a reality - hospitals in the province are full and the Covid-19 pandemic is still only approaching its peak in SA. Two special advisers to the provincial health department called on Sunday for urgent steps to avoid a catastrophe, including the possibility of transporting Covid-19 patients from other regions to the two field hospitals in Nelson Mandela Bay.

Two special advisers to the provincial health department called on Sunday for urgent steps to avoid a catastrophe in the Eastern Cape, including transporting Covid-19 patients from other regions to the two field hospitals in Nelson Mandela Bay.The worst fear of the people of the Eastern Cape is now a reality — hospitals in the province are full, while the Covid-19 pandemic is still only approaching its peak around the country.

The special advisers, former health MEC Dr Bevan Goqwana, who is helping OR Tambo district’s joint operations centre, and Dr Siva Pillay, a former health department superintendent-general now helping in the Sarah Baartman district and Nelson Mandela Bay joint operations centres, said both private and public hospitals were overflowing with Covid-19 patients.According to the health department, close to 1,500 virus infections are now being recorded daily at health-care facilities.

“I have not yet met the premier but I wanted to ask that he opens the field hospitals in Nelson Mandela Metro to the rest of the province. We have a crisis on our hands as the hospitals are full of Covid-19 patients,” said Goqwana.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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