South African health workers union challenges government in court over shortages of protective gear for frontline staff
Health workers speak to residents during a door-to-door testing in an attempt to contain the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Umlazi township near Durban, South Africa, April 4, 2020
"The risk of employees being infected with the Covid-19 virus is real," Zola Saphetha, general secretary of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union , said in court papers. Covid-19 is the potentially lethal respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Many doctors are buying their own protective gear in a desperate bid to ward off infection. Officials in the worst-hit Gauteng province appealed over the weekend for public donations of ventilators and vital masks and gloves.
The union expressed outrage last week that several of its members had contracted the coronavirus at a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal province. Mkhize said on Tuesday that around 48 staff members at the hospital had now tested positive and that provincial officials were discussing closing down parts of the facility.
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