News24 reports that Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo visited a Covid-19 testing site at District C in Roodepoort on Tuesday, where he heard concerns over minimal resources for healthcare workers.
The district has four testing facilities and one of its challenges is a shortage of sanitisers, masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) for trained healthcare workers. Makhubo heard that another issue was absenteeism as staff members at the four testing sites "panicked" over the minimal resources. The four clinics have tested 1,375 people so far, with none testing positive, clinic manager Stella Uys advised. Uys said some of the other challenges included physical distancing at taxi ranks, isolation for suspected persons who lived in one-room shacks with family members, transportation for swabs to conduct testing, and transport for referred patients. Speaking shortly after the site visit, Makhubo said they expected containers to come in to replenish the clinic stock in all of the metro’s testing sites.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lizeka Tandwa at News24
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