EDITORIAL | Health system must solve staff shortage, or it will collapse

The SAPS has re-employed 2,000 reservists. The health department should be equipped to do the same

24 January 2021 - 17:54 By sunday times daily

​“Mr President, please hear our cries. Lord please have mercy on us!” read the Facebook post on a memorial page paying tribute to health workers taken by Covid-19. A scroll through the photo gallery paints a silent picture of loss — loss of loved ones, loss of expertise. Then came the devastating news of a Netcare 911 helicopter crash, wiping out five experts in their fields, en route to help a gravely ill Covid-19 patient...

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