TimesLIVE reports that the Democratic Nursing Union of SA (Denosa) claimed on Thursday that five health workers at Durban's Addington Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.
The hospital has been identified as a state facility for the treatment of patients with Covid-19. Denosa’s Mandla Shabangu said they were investigating allegations that the transmission was linked to a nurse at the hospital whose partner worked at a private hospital. “The people affected at Addington work in the theatre, among them are nurses. The report we have is that the person who first tested positive contracted it from her partner who was moonlighting at a private hospital,” Shabangu stated. He went on to indicate: “Addington Hospital is not closed. The theatre is closed because the positive cases were there. This did not happen in the ward where other patients with Covid-19 are being nursed.” Spokesperson for the KwaZulu-Natal department of health Ntokozo Maphisa would not comment specifically on the Addington situation, but said the department had put in place stringent clinical guidelines and protocols.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Suthentira Govender at TimesLIVE
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