Health MEC cites medical equipment shortages for COVID-19 facilities
Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu says KZN doesn't have enough equipment yet at its COVID-19 facilities.
She says the department is in the process of obtaining more ventilators.
Simelane-Zulu says they're also expecting ventilator donations.
She says fifty of the ventilators are coming from the USA and they should be in KZN in the next couple of weeks.
The other hundred is coming from the solidarity fund and those are going to be with us in about four to six weeks, we are told. We are waiting for those but we also have our own that we have ordered," she added.
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Simelane-Zulu said they have ventilators that they have bought as a department in different facilities.
"We are ensuring that whatever we have now, we will add in those facilities but the majority of them are going to go to the field hospitals."
