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Rising coronavirus cases, limited staff take South Africa’s hospitals to brink of collapse – ABC News
A second wave of COVID-19 infections is threatening to overwhelm understaffed hospitals where patients are already dying due to a lack of equipment.
At the Retreat Community Health Centre in Cape Town, most patients who present with COVID-19 have mild symptoms.
Key points:
- Doctors says South Africa’s hospital system is on the brink of collapse
- Healthcare workers are already having to decide who to allocate scarce resources to
- An alcohol ban over New Year’s Eve brought welcome relief to hospital staff
Clinicians on duty offer them paracetamol and send them home.
But over the past few weeks, a growing number of people have come to the clinic struggling…
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