Critical to protect our doctors and nurses during COVID-19

South Africa’s extended Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown is merely slowing down the infection rate to allow for the urgent continued expansion of its currently inadequate treatment and life-saving capacity.

It’s a reality many people validly complaining of income and several other lock-down sacrifices have yet to understand.

Nation-wide, field hospitals are being erected, buildings re-purposed, and hospital patient-decanting plans honed while globally scarce personal protection equipment is creatively procured. Some hospitals are even converting spare basement parking space into standby mortuaries - and ordering in extra stocks of body bags. Experts preparing for the inevitable surge of infections once the economy-damaging lockdown is relaxed or lifted, have issued an earnest warning; we must adequately protect our thinly spread, courageous doctors and nurses from infection, or risk having far too few medics to care for us. That would prompt an unimaginable crisis.

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