Calls for new booze ban in EC growing via TheCitizen_News
Amid an acknowledgment by Western Cape Premier Alan Winde that misbehaviour associated with alcohol abuse during alert level 3 has adversely affected the strained public health system, a call by Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane for a renewed ban of alcohol sales has gained more traction from medical sector workers.
Alcohol abuse, said Sodidi, led to the provincial healthcare system being overwhelmingly undermined and unable to deal with the burden of Covid-19. Sodidi says hospitals and clinics in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro also saw a general increase in trauma cases, including several involving gender-based violence.
“The reversal of the lifting of the ban on alcohol is likely to see a marked reduction of the emergencies that we have come to witness in our healthcare facilities, which will augur well for the country’s preparation for Covid-19. If this is not done, critical Covid-19 patients may die because the ICU beds and ventilators, which they need, are occupied by alcohol-related cases.”
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