Loyiso
Langeni
22 December 2014
The Democratic
Nursing Organisation of South Africa has reiterated its concerns regarding the
shortage of health workers such as nurses as the road death continues to increase
during the festive season.
Denosa
Spokesperson Sibongiseni Delihlazo said the situation at ICU facilities
especially in rural areas during this time is dire, as the peak in the number
of people to the ICU’s due to accidents.
Delihlazo added
that about 15% of nurses are based in rural areas whereas the population figure
of the rural areas is around 44% in the country.
“The picture
changes completely during December whereby more people flock back to rural
areas and that puts huge strain on the infrastructure that we have in those
rural areas.
We would like to
urge people to be carefully tolerant and co-operate with law enforcement
agencies on the road and be patient and rest whenever there is a possibility to
do so.” Delihlazo said
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