The rapid spread of Covid-19 infections has overwhelmed the best-resourced health-care systems. How then should SA, with its limited health-care resources, manage the pandemic without denying care to deserving non-Covid patients?
The focus of South African politicians and health-care planners has been to “save lives” by redirecting material and human resources to prevent and treat Covid-19. Both private and public hospitals have stopped elective imaging, procedures and surgery. Patients who could be discharged were, and wards were cleared to cope with the predicted surge in Covid-19-infected patients...
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