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WC Health crippled by COVID-19 related sick leave with 37,000 days lost

More than 37,000 days of COVID-19-related sick leave have been taken by healthcare workers in the Western Cape since March, reports News24.

Western Cape Health head Keith Cloete said: “Currently 1,019 healthcare workers across 97 institutions are infected with COVID-19 which equates to 3,08% of a total staff compliment of 33,062.”

Cloete added: “Since 1 November we have had more than 25 healthcare workers pass away and more than 90 have been admitted in the last 14 days of which some, a few of them, are also in critical care.”

News24 reports that in an effort to beef up its healthcare numbers and make up for those who are in isolation, the province has approached the military to assist with staffing among other things.

 

[link url="https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/more-than-90-western-cape-health-workers-hospitalised-with-covid-19-in-past-two-weeks-20210105"]Full News24 report[/link]

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