SAMA: Festive road crashes straining healthcare workers

There have been several
fatalities in KwaZulu-Natal in the past 24 hours.

In Vryheid, north of KZN,
five people were killed in a head on collision on Emondlo Road on Monday.

In Durban, two people
died in a collision involving a minibus taxi on the N2 near Spaghetti Junction.

Paramedics say a third
person has succumbed to their injuries in hospital.

 READ: Two dead in N2 crash near Spaghetti Junction

SAMA Chairperson Doctor
Mvuyisi Mzukwa says medical personnel, already overwhelmed by staff shortages,
are being stretched thin.

“All those are
impacting negatively especially on the low numbers that we have of healthcare
workers.

“So, you find that they
are overwhelmed [during] this time because of the numbers that are coming,
obliviously we know the state of our healthcare system in terms of equipment
and stuff like that.

“We are in serious
trouble as we speak, all these things are adding to the pressure and burn out
that healthcare workers have been suffering for a very long time.”

Mzukwa is urging motorists
to be cautious.  

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