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Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu on Wednesday called reports that the province is facing a bed capacity crisis as “false.”
KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu. Image: KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health / Facebook.
JOHANNESBURG – The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health on Wednesday dismissed reports that the province was running out of beds due to an increase in COVID-19 infections.
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The province said it had moved quickly to implement various measures to handle the rapid spread of the virus.
In the latest COVID-19 statistics, KZN accounted for the most active cases in the country with just over 50,000.
Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu has called reports that the province is facing a bed capacity crisis as “false”.
“Unfortunately, society always gets poorer when facts are distorted and false and misleading information is presented as truth because it creates unnecessary panic and confusion,” Simelane-Zulu said.
Simelane said that the province currently has 66% bed occupancy.
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“In other words, we have not exhausted the beds we have for patients,” he said.
The MEC said the KZN provincial government had also taken measures to increase bed capacity to help control the rise in infections.
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