DA supports Gauteng Health priorities for Coronavirus
20 March 2020
At a Gauteng Legislature Health Committee meeting yesterday Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Maseko set out rational and sensible priorities to combat the Coronavirus in Gauteng.
He said that all Gauteng hospitals had been directed to create isolation areas for suspected and probably Covid-19 cases. Venues for mass quarantining were also being sought.
9000 Community Healthcare Workers will be trained as contact tracers, and 10 000 additional test kits are being procured over and above what the NICD is already providing.
A major problem is that the NICD hotline for cases has been overwhelmed, so war room contact numbers for Gauteng will be publicized.