The two Netcare private hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal hardest hit by Covid19 outbreaks reopened this week, with lessons that there’s no room to drop the ball when it comes to infection control.
More than anything, *Dina would love to scoop her four-year-old into her arms when he runs to greet her on her return home from work. But the nurse, who works at a Netcare private hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, has her heart broken each time she tells him to stay back and “wait a few minutes for mommy”.She undresses and leaves her clothes in a bucket to be soaked overnight then steps into the shower. Only afterwards will she hold her child.
After a while, they gave us N95 masks that got zapped up to five times. Now we get a fresh mask at the start of every shift,” says Dina. “It’s important because you don’t want people to be scared to answer screening questions honestly because they’re scared that they won’t be able to work and won’t have an income,” she says.
“I thought maybe they were going to sterilise the mask because these were single-use disposable masks, but they were not sterilised and I was shocked. Sindi says she and her colleagues received training for using PPE correctly, but it is adherence to the training that worries her most. “The attitude and negligence of managers in the private healthcare industry is making a mockery of [the chief health advisor’s] warning that we need to stop small flames to reduce the risk of raging fires,” the statement read.
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