As a cleaner at the emergency casualty ward at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, Sakhile Masombuka has seen a lot of blood and suffering. He chatted toSakhile Masombuka started working as a cleaner at the emergency casualty ward at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg in June last year.“It was my first time to see people injured like that, a lot of blood coming out everywhere . There were patients with multiple stab wounds and a lot of gunshot wounds.
“That was a Thursday night, I had started working from 8pm, I worked through the night and I finished the next day. It was not easy to leave the place because it was busy. When my shift was almost done, someone came in with multiple stab wounds. I had to wait for the doctors to finish with that patient .”“After midnight it started getting hectic. I saw a patient who came in after his three fingers were cut by a firecracker. It was so bad his three fingers were removed.
According to Lungiswa Mvumvu, Communications Officer at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, cleaning at a hospital differs a lot from what a normal cleaner does. His tasks include removing blood from the floor, cleaning the floors, scrubbing, cleaning the walls and doing high dusting. “There’s mops for the toilets, mops for the blood, mops for infected areas. Also, there are different types of waste, general waste goes into the black or see-through plastic, the red box is for human waste – anything that comes out of the mouth or body goes into that red box.”
“If a patient asks me, I have to tell the nurses – the nurses takes care of the patients in that way.”The infection control team then advises Masombuka on what measures should be put in place especially if there is an infected area.
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