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The Star reports that medical facilities around the country have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic with over 2,000 healthcare workers reported to have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus.
Meantime, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has expressed concern at the rising infection rate of healthcare workers, which topped 2,084 in both public and private hospitals last week. About 80% were in the Western Cape. The Sunninghill Netcare Hospital this week became the latest facility where workers expressed fear about spread of Covid-19 after 15 staff members allegedly tested positive for Covid-19 at the cardio coronary unit. “The unit is still operating normally, full of patients. We are not safe at all,” claimed a worker. The hospital’s general manager Pieter Louw advised that management took immediate action to contain a possible spread of the infection after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19, which was believed to have been community acquired. In Pretoria on Tuesday, fear of Covid-19 infection also gripped staff members at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, who claimed that decontamination of the wards involved had not been done adequately. Department of health spokesperson Motalatale Modiba confirmed that 15 staff members had tested positive for the virus at the facility. Scared staff commented: “We don’t trust these people because they have not been forthcoming with us, and if they can lie that they fumigated ward 33 and 34, then they can also lie to the department.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Gift Tlou on page 2 of The Star of 18 June 2020
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