EWN reports that the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) on Tuesday said the shortage of staff at public hospitals in Gauteng was more widespread than just the Helen Joseph Hospital.

Eyewitness News reported on Tuesday on the pleas of staff at the Helen Joseph Hospital for government to make more funding available to employ more nurses to deal with the influx of patients at the facility. This with the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital still partially closed following a fire. Denosa's Gauteng secretary Bongani Mazibuko described horrific scenes at public hospitals in recent weeks as distraught nurses battled to cope. But Mazibuko added that this was no fault of the nurses as they were trying their best to make do with what they had. “You can’t blame the nurse for not having a bed, this is the responsibility of the hospital.” Last month, Sichelesile Dube died in a wheelchair while waiting for a bed at the Helen Joseph Hospital. Her mother discovered her body still in the same spot where she had left her the previous day.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mia Lindeque at EWN

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