Nurses battling to cope with Covid-19
Aug 09, 2020
4 minutes
VUYO MKIZE vuyo.mkize@citypress.co.za
Inadequately trained, South Africa’s severely distressed health professionals are living in fear of contracting a deadly virus and then passing it on to their families.
This is how the country’s healthcare workers, particularly nurses, feel when it comes to the national response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and their role in it.
These are among the main findings of a new survey called Frontline talk – South African healthcare workers’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The report was released this week.
The report shows that nurses, often described as the backbone of the healthcare system, appear to be
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