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TimesLIVE reports that KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) health workers who have been exposed to traumatic incidents will be given the opportunity to undergo "psychological debriefing in order to help them cope".
The provincial health department has already started conceptualising the programme that would strengthen its capacity to attend to the psychological needs of its doctors, nurses, paramedics, forensic pathology and other essential services staff who have been exposed to horrific incidents like loss of human life, and other grisly scenes. Speaking at a departmental Women’s Month community outreach programme, MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu said the new structure, "which will boost the existing but under-resourced Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)", should be up and running in the next six months. Simelane-Zulu has already begun discussions with the department's human resources management unit on how the programme would work. "In that programme, we must have a psychologist, a clinician, a nurse ... we can agree who else we add, but those are core in any facility, so that we’re able to deal with the psychological effects of what we face on a daily basis,” she said.
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