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Is Tembisa Hospital ready for Covid-19? by Dumisani Hlatswayo
The other section where patients Management has been planning for are, is named the dirty area”. anticipated surge of patients and n line with the Gauteng In the clean area, minimal per- other wards are currently being Province Command Council’s sonal protective equipment (PPE) prepared for Covid-19 patients,” (GPCC) plans to increase is required, while in the dirty area says Dr Ncha. capacity in the province’s hospitals, all protective gear is worn. In the IOL reports that Tembisa hosTembisa Hospital has converted a unit is a space known as the don- pital is grappling with an unprecpre-existing section of hospital into ning and doffing area, which is edented influx of patients who end a unit specially designed to accom- where staff put on and take off up sleeping in chairs and corridors modate Covid-19 patients. PPE when they enter and exit the due to bed shortage. According to Dr Relebohile Ncha, dirty area. “Each day when we knock off the newly renovated area has been “We have a total of 12 beds avail- there are patients we leave on divided into two sections. “One able for low risk and high risk chairs because beds are full. space is a clean area where staff, patients. And there is sufficient There are patients who have tested who look after patients, can relax. equipment and beds for patients. positive for the coronavirus and
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because they are not strong enough to be released, they must go to our isolation ward,” doctors spoke IOL on condition of anonymity. The hospital has also put in measures in place to prevent the virus from spreading within the hospital’s premises. “Every patient that comes through is screened at the [hospital] entrance. They then go to the screening tent where their travel history is taken, and those who qualify to be swabbed are swabbed before being sent to various areas
across the hospital,” says Ncha. Other measures include the handing out of masks to patients who might have been exposed to Covid-19. There are also multiple points where patients, friends and family members can access hand sanitiser in the hospital. At the time of writing, the Ekurhuleni District currently has 366, of the 1697 cases across the province. Ekurhuleni North, the subdistrict that Tembisa falls under, has 74 confirmed cases of Covid-19.