Eleven healthcare workers at Rob Ferreira Hospital test positive for Covid-19

Dumisane Malamule, spokesperson for the Department of Health in the province, confirmed the cases.

There have been 11 confirmed Covid-19 cases among healthcare workers at the province’s largest hospital, Rob Ferreira. This was revealed by nurses stationed there earlier today.

Nurses who called Lowvelder on condition of anonymity said they feared for their lives as many of their colleagues had tested positive.

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They alleged that those who were infected were quarantined at Kiaat and Mediclinic Nelspruit private hospitals.-
“The Department of Health does not take our complaints seriously. It does not even fumigate the hospital and the environment we work in is not safe at all,” said one of the nurses.-
Dumisane Malamule, spokesperson for the Department of Health in the province, confirmed the cases. “Yes, 11 nurses are under quarantine,” he said.

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He, however, denied allegations that the department was not fumigating hospitals that had positive cases.
“Fumigation is done daily and the department is implementing Covid-19 measures,” Malamule said.
The department has come under immense scrutiny over lack of better working conditions. A number of hospitals, such as Themba recently staged a protest, demanding that it turns such conditions round.