Two sources at the hospital, which has been a vital facility during the national lockdown, said it suffered the outbreak after a pharmacy intern tested positive late last week.
Six pharmacists at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital have contracted Covid-19, according to the Gauteng department of health.
Other staff were urged to head to the hospital to be tested and it eventually emerged that pharmacists and assistant pharmacists also tested positive.Pictures of an industrial cleaning process under way at the hospital on Monday were leaked to News24, confirming infection concerns at the facility. The sources also told News24 that pharmacists at the inpatients’ department received prescriptions directly from Covid-19 wards.They added that prescriptions came down from the wards “and they touch them and have runners in between and bring it to the pharmacy from the wards”.
While shopping centres were closing at the slightest hint of the virus, there was no indication of closure from the hospital management, one of the sources said.
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