Hospital workers say they do not feel safe as bodies of those who had died from Covid-19 are not kept separate from other bodies.
Hospital staff from the Uitenhage Provincial Hospital who have downed tools in a desperate plea for proper PPE in order to deal with Covid-19 patients demand for more staff to be employed and to be provided with the necessary PPE .
Porter Lazola Nqakula said he was threatened when he refused to move a suspected Covid-19 body from the ward to the mortuary after being given only a plastic apron instead of the PPE required when moving a body. National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union regional secretary Sweetness Stokwe said urgent intervention was needed by the staffers who as a result opted to relieve the hospital’s CEO and senior nurse from their posts on Monday.
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