A nurse performs a swab test for Covid-19 in Lenasia, Johannesburg, May 13 2020. Picture: MICHELE SPATARI/AFP
Seikaneng, 64, is one of 11 nurses in the town about 500km west of Johannesburg, fighting the spread of the coronavirus in a nation with the highest numbers of confirmed cases on the continent. According to the Africa Centre for Disease Control, SA has 681,200 Covid-19 cases. About 16,976 people have died from the disease.
“We’'re doing the best we can with the little we have,” she said from an office in Reivilo Health Centre where she works. “We only have one ventilator in the whole hospital. What can we do? We have to keep working because this is a pandemic,” Shikwambana said.The Covid-19 ward used to be for tuberculosis patients, who were moved elsewhere in the hospital as the pandemic gathered pace.
Shikwambana and the other nurses sometimes speak to patients through the window, cutting down on the need for PPE and preserving precious supplies.
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