Hospitals, courts face backlog headache
Oct 17, 2020
3 minutes
CHELSEA GEACH chelsea.geach@inl.co.za
INFECTIONS may have fallen, but South Africa is waking up with a Covid-19 hangover as public facilities face the gargantuan task of catching up on all the services that were shut down or limited during lockdown.
At the Cape’s two biggest hospitals, there is currently a backlog of over 7500 surgeries, while across the country’s courts there was a backlog of nearly 50000 criminal cases at the end of
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