Doctor’s plea: Cape Town, help us help you

A senior medical officer working for the Western Cape Health Department has made

an impassioned plea for all to follow COVID-19 protocols.

In an open letter to Capetonians, she lays bare the utter exhaustion of healthcare workers and says

‘This is my nightmare and yours. Once the beds are full and oxygen used up,  and we are rapidly approaching that point,

then my hospital and so many others will not be able to help. They will be clearing stations for corpses’.

Dr Andrea Mendelsohn joined us via Skype to share more of what’s happening in local hospitals.