KZN education spokesperson shares what kept him going during 23-day hospital Covid-19 battle

KwaZulu-Natal education department spokesperson Muzi Mahlambi spent 23 days in hospital where he witnessed six patients die, learnt to adjust to the “new normal” and fought Covid-19.“In the 18 days that I was in ICU six people died. It was so traumatic because you know when doctors and nurses rally around one bed and run around with a lot of machines that there is serious trouble. The next thing the curtains are drawn.

“The next thing a new patient comes and occupies that bed. The small terrified person in you wants to tell him or her to say people died in that bed and you are quickly reminded that you also know no history about yours,” he said.Muzi Mahlambi was on oxygen for 18 of his 23 days in hospital.“In my 51 years of existence it was for the first time I went to hospital, let alone be admitted. I had flu symptoms that I tried to self-medicate.

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