A patient's account of life inside the Cape Town International Convention Centre Covid-19 field hospital has gone viral TheCapeArgus
The post, which was shared by Melly K. on Facebook, includes a video depicting frontline health workers singing to patients as they pass their beds at the CTICC temporary hospital.
The account shares that people admitted are allocated a bed number and a ward section and that "they really go out of the way" to make the patients feel comfortable. The post has more than more than 400 shares and has been watched more than 14 000 times as of Thursday evening. More than 100 people from the various contracting companies worked on the site, with the commissioning team consisting of 40 team members focusing on various areas including infrastructure, engineering IT, health technology and staffing.Each bed is numbered and linked to a paperless system. Admissions, patient files and administrative work is handled on this system in order to reduce the risk of infection associated with moving paper documents and files around.
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