Two health experts have slammed government's failure to act swiftly in the face of the third Covid-19 wave, taking particular aim at a lack of hospital space and quarantine facilities not being reopened.The government was repeatedly warned about the impending third Covid-19 wave and was told to set up field hospitals over fears that health facilities would quickly become overwhelmed — but they simply didn’t listen.
“This third wave was coming. Covid never bid us goodbye after the second wave. And we cautioned when centres [field hospitals] like Nasrec were closed, when the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital went down more than 60 days ago, we knew we were facing a crisis and our Covid numbers were already starting to climb. And there was just a relaxed attitude on our provincial health department's part in not planning,” said Mathivha, who also sits on the advisory committee.
“As the advisory committee, we said we have actually had some of these field hospitals before. Let's get those ready. And the question that we need to pose is, when is that going to happen? When are we going to see extra beds for Gauteng? And, really, that is causing a lot of anxiety to us as a committee, and we do need to actually get that done. And it should have been done last week.
“From the reports that we are getting is that, you know, the department has failed ... We are looking at more than 100% bed occupancy in some hospitals. And the question is, what is going to happen to patients when they need to go to hospital? Where are the beds, where is the staffing to actually look after these patients?
“We really just feel when there was time to prepare, we're not seeing that preparedness coming through, because there actually were even surge plans put in place, and now we're not seeing those coming up,” she said.
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How can they listen when their energies are spent on ways to loot?
They that fail to prepare . Prepare to fail.
Thank you for speaking the truth. Gauteng Prov Govt FAILED!!!
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