Zweli Mkhize welcomes staff boost for overwhelmed Steve Biko hospital
(World News South Africa)

Pretoria - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has welcomed the news that a new batch of medical staff has been deployed to the embattled Steve Biko Academic Hospital. This follows reports that staff were being overstretched. Despite the rapid increase in the number of coronavirus cases in Gauteng, Mkhize said steps were in place to ensure that medical facilities acted quickly. The deployment of the nurses is part of efforts to boost the response to the coronavirus. Mkhize, who yesterday visited Steve Biko Hospital as part of his tour to provinces hit hard by Covid-19 cases, said the shortage of staff problems at the hospital had been resolved. “I...