{"id":192476,"date":"2021-06-18T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/military-health-practitioners-to-assist-gauteng\/"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T09:22:52","slug":"military-health-practitioners-to-assist-gauteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/military-health-practitioners-to-assist-gauteng\/","title":{"rendered":"Military health practitioners to assist Gauteng"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Government has employed the help of the South African National Defence Force to fight the spread of COVID-19 in Gauteng, as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to peak.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a conversation with the President and the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, we\u2019ve requested additional capacity to assist Gauteng,\u201d said Acting Health Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, on Friday.<\/p>\n

Kubayi-Ngubane was updating media on the latest developments concerning the COVID-19 pandemic and the country\u2019s vaccination rollout plan.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Gauteng recorded 7 502 new COVID-19 cases out of the 11 767 that were detected.<\/p>\n

The Minister said government is concerned about the province, which is currently the country’s epicentre. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Minister said military personnel will also be involved in mass community testing, screening and contact tracing, and lending a hand at hospitals.<\/p>\n

She announced that the military health service will deployed in Gauteng from today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will ensure that we can ease the burden of the healthcare workers in the province, where they are seriously under pressure,\u201d said Kubayi-Ngubane.<\/p>\n

In addition, she said the closure of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital continues to put undue pressure on the already strained healthcare system.<\/p>\n

However, the department is working around the clock to bring the hospital into full functionality after the fire that gutted the facility in April.<\/p>\n

The department has since issued a circular requesting that non-critical and non-urgent surgeries be postponed to pay attention to COVID-19 patients, while the province has managed to increase bed capacity to 4 000 from 3 000.<\/p>\n

The Minister said South Africa has since surpassed the two million mark in terms of the number of people who have been vaccinated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe higher the number of the people we\u2019re able to vaccinate, the better we will manage the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has since called on people to not lower their guard but adhere to strict non-pharmaceutical protocols. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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