Most of us will remember 26 March 2020 — the start of our national Covid-19 lockdown — for the rest of our lives. But for me, there is another day which will forever stand above all others. It’s the very next day, after that Thursday announcement when the first person in our province died as a result of the virus.
From the Western Cape Government, I think first of our Health Department which formed the frontline of our response. This team cared for tens of thousands of additional patients who came through their doors in the worst two years of the pandemic. To see to these extra numbers, they partnered with our Public Works Department andThey changed our outcomes picture with new treatment methods in dexamethasone and high-flow nasal oxygen.
I think of our Social Development Department officials, who, in the first six months of the pandemic, distributed 55,977 food parcels to 224,000 beneficiaries. They provided old-age homes with 120,000 face masks. They worked rapidly to establish detailed guidelines for managing Covid-19 at care facilities, with specialised training provided to carers, providing certainty to their sector.
, in partnership with our taxi industry, providing safe evening transport for public sector healthcare workers during a hard lockdown and beyond. During the first eight months of the pandemic, we completed 173,000 passenger trips for healthcare workers from 25 healthcare facilities in the Metro. The service also transported 3,500 discharged patients from hospitals.
I think of our communications team which worked 24/7 to roll out an impactful, wide-scale Covid–19 safety awareness campaign, the biggest communications campaign this province has ever undertaken, to ensure that we could start to go about our business as soon as possible while keeping one another safe. They ran our digicons and issued updates every day of the week, so that everyone was armed with the knowledge they needed to stay safe.
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