The KZN Department of Health apparently agreed to test all staff working at its Emergency Medical Rescue Services bases for Covid-19 after infections led to the closure of the KwaMashu, Clairwood and oThongathi ambulance bases. TheMercurySA
He said the department had initially closed only the KwaMashu base last weekend after workers’ downed tools, demanding that the base be sanitised and all staff tested, following the detection of a Covid-19 case the previous Thursday. Further cases were detected, one each at oThongathi and Clairwood bases last Wednesday, and the bases there were then closed, he said.
“That is why we are saying, based on these three incidents the department must embark on testing all employees so that everyone will know his status, and if one tests positive they can be isolated and services can continue,” he said. “As a matter of principle, where a positive Covid-19 case has been identified, contact mapping and tracing is conducted, as well as the screening, testing and quarantining of people who have come into contact with the affected individuals, and the isolation of those who test positive.”
“All of the department’s facilities, including EMS bases, where staff have tested positive are either in the process of being decontaminated, or have already been. Where feasible, the district infection prevention and control co-ordinator also goes to conduct a post-decontamination inspection,” he said.
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