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A year of Covid-19 in SA: Many lessons were learnt amid the carnage, says Gift of the Givers founder
By Opinion
Imtiaz Sooliman
March 5 marks the anniversary of the first Covid-19 case diagnosed in Hilton, South Africa. What followed was nothing short of carnage as 42 variants wreaked havoc through two waves, the second one infinitely more devastating than the first: countless souls departed, anxiety, fear, emotional and mental Ill health at an all time high especially among first responders, job losses in the millions, bread winners succumbed, livelihoods shattered, and givers have become takers.
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Respiratory healthcare services have been under an inordinate degree of pressure since the emergence of Covid-19 a year ago, writes
Dr Marcus Kennedy, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Cork University Hospital and Treasurer, Irish Thoracic Society and
Suzanne McCormack, Chief Executive Officer, Irish Thoracic Society
Soon after the onset of the first wave, the extent to which Covid-19 would increase the burden on already over-stretched respiratory healthcare services became abundantly clear. However, the impact of the third wave in terms of increased illness, increased hospitalisations, loss of life and reduced non-Covid-19 healthcare services is something none of us could have imagined 12 months ago and the repercussions will remain with us for a long time to come.
“Ventilated patients are all patients who have failed all other forms of therapy available to them. In other words, they’re the very sickest of the sick Covid-19 patients.
“When we ventilate them we put them on a ventilator, they get incubated, they have a tube put into their trachea, their windpipe, and we get a ventilator to breathe for them,” said Joubert.
“We give them a muscle relaxant so they are paralysed, they can’t move any more, and they have sedation so they are deeply unconscious. And essentially they get what is the same as a very prolonged anaesthetic and for some of the patients that sort of anaesthesia has lasted three to four weeks, during which time you have to do absolutely everything for the patient,” he said.
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