Covid-19 patient offers hotel for healthcare workers

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While Kim Whitaker, South Africa’s Covid-19 patient number 42, was in quarantine, she thought up a plan to find accommodation for healthcare workers. Next week, the first 25 healthcare workers will move into Whitaker’s Once In Cape Town hotel

Next week, the first 25 healthcare workers will move into Whitaker’s Once In Cape Town hotel – a safe place where they can live knowing that they are not putting their families at risk.

The emergency accommodation is free and Ubuntu Beds, which Whitaker thought up, is now trying to find funding to cover the running costs, including water, electricity and laundry.Kim WhitakerThree weeks ago, she returned from a trade fair in Germany and isolated herself on medical advice and was tested for Covid-19.“My house turned into a hospital overnight.

During a Zoom meeting with the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation she asked an Italian colleague what he would have done differently if he could turn back the clock two weeks.“We should have used empty hotels to safely accommodate medical workers near their jobs,” he said.

 

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