Nurses union Denosa warns there could be an estimated deficit of 13 million nurses by 2030. 😵💫 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 📲
Dr Joe Phaahla said the world had been grappling with a “serious” shortage of healthcare workers, even before the coronavirus pandemic.
He described the “crisis in human resources” as one of the most pressing global health issues of “our time”. “The minister said what the audience needed to hear and at the same time, the very same government, in particular this department, is not doing what it needs to do,” he said.“[Phaahla] was talking about the shortage of workforce of healthcare across the country, but it is at the same time the making of the very same government that we’re short-staffed, overworked and underpaid.”
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