SANDF medical team arrives in Eastern Cape to help overwhelmed hospitals

The SA National Defence Force’s Military Health Service has deployed doctors, nurses and operational emergency care practitioners to the Eastern Cape to help the province’s overwhelmed public hospitals.

SA Military Health Service spokesperson Priscilla Lengoasa told News24 more military workers were expected to be deployed in phases to the province.Lengoasa said other military healthcare providers had already been deployed to assist the provincial Department of Health with the recent surge in Covid-19 infections in this area.

“SAMHS spearheads the SANDF fight against the coronavirus epidemic alongside the Department of Health, and heeded the call of the president, since the official announcement of lockdown countrywide on 27 March 2020,” said Lengoasa in a statement. The Eastern Cape’s hospitals have been struggling to cope with the influx of patients, as staff at some hospitals embark on go-slows over various grievances around their work environment.

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