High levels of violence and the severity of some of the injuries they deal with are driving health workers to their sick beds‚ according to the head of trauma at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
Prof Andrew Nicol told a media briefing on Thursday that many emergency workers were being booked off with burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder...
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