S.African health workers stretched as COVID-19 infections near 1 million – Devdiscourse

Matron Annamarie Odendaal has cancelled all staff holiday on the COVID-19 ward at the private Arwyp Medical Centre in Johannesburg as a second wave of the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm South Africa’s health system.
“I called them back because we are in a peak period now, so it’s not easy for the staff because they also want to go back to their family members,” she told Reuters on the ward on Christmas Day. “Sometimes they are tired but they never say ‘I can’t come to work’. The patient is really…

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