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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT : Critical climate change and health action needs to be considered globally post the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO Climate Change and Health Special Report outlines 10 priority recommendations to be considered by nations and adopted at COP26. The special report provides South Africa with the opportunity to consider how the priority recommendations can be implemented locally
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"AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT : The shortage of healthcare professionals in South Africa has led to nurses working in the public health sector faced with almost double the workloads. This is according to the President of the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union, Lerato Maduma-Gova. ""The country does not have enough nursing personnel, and this started long before the pandemic and we still struggled terribly during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic,"" said Maduma-Gova. According to the SA Nursing Council's (SANC) provincial distribution of nursing manpower versus the population of South Africa, there is one nurse for every 218 patients"
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The Covid-19 pandemic has led to increased retrenchments and job losses in the consulting engineering industry, which, in turn, has led to a skills drain in the sector, temporary works consultant Waco Engineering Services MD Otto Botha says.
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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT : Visitation guidelines at healthcare facilities in the Western Cape have been adjusted, now that the province is clear from the fourth wave. Visitors and escorts are now allowed to be present at health facilities under special circumstances. Screening of visitors at entrances to hospitals is no longer required. But wearing masks, sanitising and social distancing remains mandatory, the provincial health department said in a media release.. Outpatients who are minors or those who are disabled, vulnerable, or weak can now have one person escort them. This includes people being treated in emergency rooms. Two family members are allowed to be with end of life patients