Kaya 959 Point of View with Phemelo Motene

Rolling blackouts have become a nightmare for healthcare workers.

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Healthcare workers face substantial stresses in the course of their daily duties. The added complications of rolling blackouts – from non-functioning life support machines to essential medications going bad and power surges causing expensive equipment to blow – have made life hellish for them.

‘We had to just keep her there and watch her bleed,’ said Nicholas Brink, a distressed community service doctor formerly working at Tintswalo district hospital in Mpumalanga. He was describing how in December 2022, without electricity, doctors were unable to properly assist a woman who had just had a miscarriage, and was bleeding profusely.
23 Jan 2023 8AM English South Africa Education · Careers

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