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BL Premium reports that private hospital group Netcare is sending additional staff to its Eastern Cape facilities and is considering suspending elective surgery as the region grapples with a surge in Covid-19 cases.
Nelson Mandela Bay metro is the province’s hotspot and had 6,285 recorded active cases on Sunday, a huge increase on the 167 recorded three weeks earlier. The spike in cases has put immense pressure on hospital services in the region. The metro’s public hospitals ran out of beds in their intensive-care units earlier in November. Netcare plans to deploy staff from other provinces to its hospitals in the Eastern Cape on a voluntary basis, sending them on a 10-day rotation to relieve pressure on personnel who are permanently stationed there. Unlike the Western Cape, which reached an agreement earlier this year with private hospitals to admit state Covid-19 patients should the need arise, no formal arrangement is in place for the Eastern Cape health department to refer state patients to private providers. We have let the officials know in the Eastern Cape that we are more than willing to sit down and try to conclude an agreement," said Netcare CEO Richard Friedland.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tamar Kahn at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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