Private healthcare provider Life Healthcare Group has denied allegations that its hospitals in the Eastern Cape are quarantining Covid-19 positive staff secretly and accommodating positive and negative patients in one ward.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union alleged that staff from the hospital were quarantined secretly in private B&B facilities and a local hotel in East London, and were told by hospital authorities not to divulge any information. Dr Charl van Loggerenberg, general manager: emergency medicine at Life Healthcare, said: “Employees who have tested positive for Covid-19 are given the option to quarantine or self-isolate at accommodation provided for them by the hospital. Partner establishments accommodating the patients were upmarket facilities and paid by Life Healthcare at no cost to the employee.
Van Loggerenberg said in the emergency unit, as in other units, measures were taken to prevent any suspected infection being transferred from one patient to another, even if they are in the same area.
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