Three critical medical units this week were closed at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane after some staffers tested positive for Covid-19.
The hospital's intensive care unit , orthopaedic outpatient department and dental output patient department are empty of patients and health workers., adding “the closure of any unit means a disruption in services”.
Kupelo said: “No nurses were told to self-isolate, but they demanded self-isolation. Protocols don't allow massive testing and isolation like this.” One nurse said: “We had a patient who was positive and who died on May 14 at 9.50pm. Her corpse was only taken the following day, on May 15, after 2pm. Things continued as normal and no deep cleaning was done at all.
Another nurse, who is at home in self-isolation, said used linen in the ICU ward had been piling up for several weeks.
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