The Democratic Alliance has launched an online
service on Sunday, 5 April 2020, to link local manufacturers that produce personal protective
equipment, (PPE), ventilators and other much-needed resources, with national
and provincial governments in an attempt to resource South Africa’s healthcare
facilities with life-saving equipment.
The political party says that several reports not
only indicate chronic shortages of PPE, but also other essential resources such
as testing and screening equipment across the country for frontline health
professionals.
In the spirit of working together with the
Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, in the valiant fight against this
pandemic, the DA said it wrote to the Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize, last week
to make proposals for dealing with, what they call, ‘’catastrophic shortage’’.
The opposition party has called on the Health
Ministry to bring together manufacturing companies and give them the brief on
the products that are most needed, have these approved by the South African
Bureau of Standards (SABS) and roll them out to provinces and facilities that
need it most.
The DA commended government’s response to the
coronavirus pandemic, but however, said that in order to beat COVID-19,
government needs to protect front-line staff in the process.
Done By: Mitchum George
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