Gauteng has boosted its health care services with an additional 300 nurses to help arrest the surge in Covid-19 cases.
Health minister Zweli Mkhize told Stephen Grootes on the SAfm Sunrise show that the nurses would help in the ICU and high-care wards and areas that are under pressure.Gauteng has been boosted its health-care services with an additional 300 nurses to help arrest the surge in Covid-19 cases.that the nurses would help in the ICU and high-care wards and areas that were under pressure.
He said the province's health services had been boosted with the arrival of 20 Cuban health specialists three weeks ago and this week the defence force had deployed 52 health-care workers, including 35 nurses, 12 doctors and five clinical associates.Truckloads of PPEs and officials to help in managerial positions had been sent to the province, Mkhize said.He said his department would be increasing the number of beds available across the country to meet the number of admissions for July.
He added that the country would receive a total of 20,000 ventilators by the end of August. The new ventilators were easier to use and would be placed in smaller district hospitals where there were no ICUs available, Mkhize said.
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