Health experts divided on South Africa's preparedness for health disasters

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'We don’t even need a pandemic. You just need an outbreak. We saw some of these cholera outbreaks and how difficult it was to treat these patients,' said Dr Angelique Coetzee.

JOHANNESBURG - Health experts remain divided on South Africa's preparedness for another disaster, four years after the devastating COVID-19 pandemic first hit.

Stay-at-home orders, travel bans and strict curfews were instituted by government to curb the pandemic.Government believes its response to the COVID pandemic was swift and decisive. But former chairperson of the South African Medical Association, Dr Angelique Coetzee doesn’t think this is true. A shortage of medical expertise, a lack of funds, infrastructural challenges and a perceived lack of transparency and accountability continue to plague the public healthcare sector.

 

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