Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says 87 000 beds are available in public health institutions to accommodate Covid-19 patients.
"We have heard that some companies have offered to manufacture more ventilators and we welcomed that. We need to have them in case we need more.
ntwaagae Amazingly just a week ago people were being turned away with no beds...
ntwaagae Amanga wona?
PelelaniGambu ntwaagae They could they just choose not to ... for years they didn’t even bother changing Public Hospital beds ...Now they 87 000 hospital beds available for coronavirus patients
ntwaagae Sounds like alot at first until you realize it's only 1 bed for every 666 patients
ntwaagae This is good news. Well done.
ntwaagae and 59,308,690 potential patients at the peak infection rate waiting we might have to play musical beds and hope we dont have to resort to scuba buddy support of a ventilator too - worst case scenario
ntwaagae Kukude la siyakhona
ntwaagae Doubt it.
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