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Bay hospitals at breaking point, scared and exhausted, undertakers swamped — headlines since June 26. Before the coronavirus, government hospitals were already in a disgusting, filthy state.
A few months ago, there were reports in the paper of urine and blood-soaked beds. This is not new.
Why was the health delegation shocked that no nurses turned up for night duty? Doctors and nurses are working under tremendous pressure.
Well done to the doctors mopping floors at 3am, but I am sure they did not study for seven years to mop floors. Where are the cleaning staff?
Whoever has heard of patients walking to the gate to fetch their food? This is not heard of at Greenacres or St George’s hospitals. Can’t the catering be outsourced?
How many women and babies are going to die or develop complications?
Volkswagen donated a lot of money to their new facility with blankets, sheets and even pillows with pillow cases, yet the reality at state hospitals is that patients must take their own bedding.
At the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, food is provided in abundance, but patients at Provincial Hospital are being turned away.
At Dora Nginza, pregnant women are in labour for 12 to 14 hours. At Livingstone Hospital, there are no sanitisers, no scanners, and staff not even washing hands. How many people will develop infections?
Mr Mkhize is right in asking that the defence force step in to assist.
Carol Adams
BOBANI FOR MAYOR?
What the hell! Bobani may be reinstated as mayor? Is there no end to the incompetence of the councillors? The end of the metro is nigh. Time to switch off the lights in our once-thriving and beloved city. Any hope for the future is dead. RIP.
Scoop
Bobani for mayor? God help us all! The council becomes more of a joke every day. A bunch of imbeciles are making decisions and spending our rates and taxes. This is Africa at its worst.
Sandy Y
You can never trust the ANC. First they vote Bobani out, now The Herald headlines Bobani for mayor again. No wonder our city is in such a mess with the ANC in charge.
Leon
Mayor Bobani? I don’t think so, we are in a bad place. Does the ANC want to make it worse?
Mike
When I saw the heading in last Tuesday’s Herald, I thought I was having a nightmare! Could it be April Fool’s Day? You have to be joking if there is any thought of Bobani taking over the role of mayor of our poor metro again!
JH
SMILING ALL THE WAY
From one lurching joke to the next, which us rate and taxpayers must fund ... Mettler gets a R2.6m handshake, to premier Mabuyane saying, “the province must do all it can to protect the health system from collapsing”. Premier, our health system has already collapsed, and the most competent exposer of corruption, Mettler, is smiling all the way to the bank.
Gordon Upton
NOT COLOUR ISSUE
I’m afraid you haven’t stated it correctly, Mickey, about white residents and being a poor black. You should take cognisance of the report in The Herald that there are presently over 14,000 leaks in our municipality. The leak in our street has been spewing municipal water for two months and nothing is being done. (Loss of at least say 500 litres a day, which equates to about R34,000 a month in water and sewerage income). Now multiply that by 14,000 and then consider the loss of income to the municipality every month and if it wouldn’t be more prudent to hire more plumbers, on contract, to bring the problem hastily under control. (People are crying for work.) The problem is not a black or white issue, it’s a clear case of bungling buffoons voted into power who are more adept at altering street names and nitpicking on political non-issues instead of supplying the required services and getting the work done.
Robert
Mickey, don’t play the race card. Ex-white suburbs sit without street lights and water leaks for months. This is everywhere. It is the municipality that is not doing its work.
Zorro