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Masego Mafata, GroundUp The Gauteng Department of Health has received mixed reactions to it taking over ambulance services. A provincial service ambulance outside the Nasrec quarantine and isolation site on July 03, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Dino Lloyd)
The City of Johannesburg’s fleet of ambulances has decreased from 100 to 40 since the province began taking over ambulances last year.
And as Gauteng battles in the midst of a third wave of Covid-19 infections, the remaining ambulances were suspended two weeks ago, causing more strain on the service.
The remaining 40 were suspended because the City cannot provide ambulance services without a licence to operate, said spokesperson of the City’s Emergency Management Services, Robert Mulaudzi. Part of the provincialisation process requires municipalities to apply
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More than 5 000 municipal health practitioners are earmarked for Covid-19 vaccines within the coming weeks, with the first group of 16 officials having already been inoculated.
Health and Social Development MMC, Cllr Eunice Mgcina says all frontline workers in the City’s healthcare facilities will be jabbed with the Covid-19 vaccine as part of the initial phase of the national inoculation drive.
To date, over twenty frontline workers in municipal healthcare facilities have received the injection, which helps their bodies build up immunity against the Coronavirus.
Chico Nyathi and Bongani Masando from the City’s Emergency Management Services (EMS) were among the first 16 healthcare practitioners to be inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital on Friday, 5 March.