With the fourth wave predicted for December, healthcare workers are urging those eligible for the jab to join the queues which could save their lives.
“This week we had a group of people on the same street admitted. A family contracted the virus and their neighbours tried to help but now they are all hospitalised. I have made sure that all of my family members either got or registered to get their vaccination.”“A mother is currently fighting for her life in ICU while her son is hospitalised and her daughter just wants to say comfort or say goodbye to her mother but we can’t allow it.
Ndlovu said her unit was the first to receive a 21-year-old patient last year, who was a son of a colleague. “I’m begging people to get vaccinated. The vaccination will prevent you from spreading the virus, it will reduce the severity of illness and will result in fewer hospitalisations. It represents the difference between a fairly minor versus a severe illness. We’re trying to preserve lives.”Private doctor Mags Moodley has not only fought Covid-19 in hospital wards but before his vaccination, he ended up having to fight for his life after testing positive during the second wave.
“It has been about one-and-a-half years of this pandemic and we are exhausted. We humans and everyone has their limits and we are being stretched. We care for our patients but at the same time we are becoming desensitised and numb to it all.” “Some patients we knew, others we did not but while nursing a patient you get close to them. Losing a patient is hard, no matter how long or short a time you nurse, it is always traumatic. Afterwards you continue questioning yourself, asking ’did I do enough?’”“A vaccinated patient was recently admitted and the way this patient progressed was quite remarkable. In fact, the doctor said that this particular patient would certainly have been ventilated had they not been vaccinated.
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