[ANALYSIS] African medics struggle in virus 'war zone' eNCA
A healthcare worker writes on a sample of a specimen bottle while a resident waits in the queue to be tested during a mass testing exercise for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Nairobi.Health workers toiling on the frontline across Africa say they are facing rising infections, shortages of protective equipment and growing strains as they battle the coronavirus.South Africa's health ministry says more than 2,000 practitioners have contracted the virus and at least 17 have died from it.
Regional union boss Gerald Lotriet said since April there had been six work stoppages in Western Cape as up to 7,000 staff downed tools over"I heard some nurses say to me if I had known about COVID, I would have rather joined the army," province chairman for the Hospital Public Servants Association, told AFP."One said if you are in the army and somebody told you there is a bomb, you would run away from it and in our situation we are being told we have to run towards it.
Resident doctors in poorly funded state hospitals on Monday began an indefinite strike -- sparked in part by complaints over inadequate protective gear. "In Lagos, some health workers were even detained by the police for allegedly violating the curfew," he said. "The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a peculiar challenge to health systems across the world," Ihekweazu told AFP.Healthcare representatives say they are seeing the number of coronavirus cases grow among those working in the sector.
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