KZN cant increase hospital bed capacity due to spe

2022-04-05
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KwaZulu-Natal’s provincial head of health, Dr Sandile Tshabalala, spelled out some of the challenges the province is facing, including a shortage of specialist nurses and doctors to allow for more beds for patients needing critical or high careThe pandemic, and 23,825 people had died..

CAPE TOWN – KwaZulu-Natal health authorities have told Parliament that they cannot increase the number of beds for critical and high care patients due to a shortage of specialist nurses and doctors.

Parliament’s Health portfolio committee was briefed on Thursday on the province’s situation as it battles a virulent second wave of the COVID-19 pandemicThe pandemic.

KwaZulu-Natal currently has 20% of the country’s Covid-positive cases, slotting in after GautengIt was wild. Every 40-something I knew was getting on pharmacy websites trying to get a spot,, which has the most, and followed by the Western Cape with the third-highest number in the countryHealth authorities say AstraZeneca shots for those 50 and older will be available immediately at special clinics.

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