Eight Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers at Greys Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, face a disciplinary hearing after they refused last week to attend to a patient with Covid-19. They cited a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) as the reason.
They also told GroundUp that they had not been trained on how to handle patients with Covid-19, and that management threatened to fire them if they kept questioning the situation.
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