Maart said her mother Petronella Benjamin, 61, died on April 29 just a day before she officially retired after she had been a nurse for a mammoth 35 years at Cape Town Reproductive Clinic. PatBambalele YoliswaSobuwa
Maart said her mother Petronella Benjamin, 61, died on April 29 just a day before she officially retired after she had been a nurse for a mammoth 35 years at Cape Town Reproductive Clinic. She was the first frontline worker in Western Cape to die of Covid-19 related illness.
"I have been on leave and with the rising number of nurses who are either infected or dying from Covid-19 related illnesses, I am scared to go back to work," she said.Maart described her mother as someone who was dedicated to her work. Before she died, her mother booked off sick for a month as she was suffering from bronchitis, but she forced her way back to work as she wanted to serve people. She said a week before she died, she began vomiting and her temperature was rising.
"She was admitted to hospital on a Thursday and unfortunately she died on a Wednesday the following week. It was hurting when she died because we tried to force my mother to retire last year in December, but she refused. The hardest thing was that when she was buried my father was not at the funeral because he was sick. He was in the intensive care unit because he had also tested positive. We could not even hug each other.
The biggest number of deaths recorded thus far is in Eastern Cape, which has chalked in 27 both in private and public hospitals. At the time of going to print, the Gauteng tally was unconfirmed.
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