Mkhize, who was in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday, said he would instead be sending reinforcements to bolster the province’s Covid-19 strategy.
“We’re still comfortable they can do it and theirs is to save the lives of the people of the province.” At Dora Nginza, expectant mothers were left waiting for up to 16 days for caesarean sections and family members had to provide food as staff embarked on a go-slow. Earlier this month, the health department introduced a new testing strategy, focusing testing on hospital patients, their immediate contacts, those showing symptoms and hospital staff.Commenting on the testing strategy, Mkhize said it had shown that the province and metro had not run out of hospital beds but that people under investigation had filled the beds.
“Others died around the period of Covid-19 and all these must be investigated, but we are saying there’s a process of tracking deaths; we still want daily reports.The department had been watching the Eastern and Western Cape closely, he said.“The numbers and conditions here are the reason we sent a team.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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