Health Dept calls on unemployed nurses as COVID-19 strains resources
The country is currently battling a second wave of infections, which has seen a major spike in people requiring hospital care as well as an increase in COVID-19 related deaths.
FILE: A Doctors Without Border (MSF) nurse (C) performs a COVID-19 coronavirus test during a Ministry of Health screening and testing drive in the Wolhuter men's hostel in Jeppestown district of Johannesburg, on 14 May 2020. Picture: AFP
93 days ago
CAPE TOWN - The Health Department is calling on more nurses to come forward as hospitals and health workers continue to take strain due to rising COVID-19 hospitalisations.