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should be about raising prices and harley down to the government. we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world. we live in time in the adult who has the task of fixing a war torn economy, counting the cost on al jazeera use. i'm semi ok annual watching the stream on this episode. we are talking about south africa, the 3rd covey, the wave sweeping the country. and this week, protests of riots are to an additional challenge for medical staff already under pressure, trying to tackle the highly infectious delta of variance. we intended to open on the, on friday, the 24th of june. and when we saw the situation in the hospitals, in how food things were getting, we were forced open on the thursday the night before alison san. it's been one bit

gets get in the next patient comes in, we time prioritize resources in which i need. sure. so we even turn around once a patient is discharged, the way the bed, the room gets clean and gets back for the next patient is done within an hour. but it's because it's a saturday and need for beds and for treatment and oxygen during the show today to talk about the covey crises in south africa, dr. linda gail. dr. aca don't to doctors. it's great to have you. i wish it was under better circumstances. doctor linda gal, welcome back to the stream. please tell our audience and remind them pretty you all . i want you day. they say me and the director of the day's min teacher, a chevy, st. mechanical try list research based here in south africa, most recently involved in quite a lot of the covet vaccine research. get to have he taught to walk up, introduce yourself to the stream audience. he s m a family practitioners treating lot of covert patients on the front line and mostly volunteer medical directive,

a gift of the give us doing lots of support work for code patient and working networking with other n jose and have done some vaccine child work for private exceeding child center. thanks for being with us. and dr. dr. owen, welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself. try international viewers from dr . o. in the representative to south africa. and my way most trading was around supporting the government efforts in public health in general. but this time, particularly focusing on covered 90 response. so there's, you know, when we have 3 doctors on the street, we can only be talking about cove at 19. they are here at your disposal. they are ready to answer your questions about the delta variance. about coven 19 about 2nd ways. thirds weight, whatever you want to know, they will answer it right here. put your questions like in the comment section. be part of today's show, dr. young, let me start with you festival. this. this 3rd wife for south africa. you

are dealing with you on the front light. can you give us an example of what your days are? like? holidays are not the day. it's actually the day in the night. if you really think about it, you try and squeeze in a bit of sleep at the end of your shift. i'm in private practice. but as i mentioned, i'm part of some various dr. culver groups which we set up in the 1st wave. so the days a long day, you don't know where you can encounter your practice and how many covert patients will be coming. we see patients from various spectrums of the economic economy. so those that can afford a cool the testers that cannot, and i want to put the context into that because most of the patients and there's a term that's bandied on p u i've the patient and the investigation will meet certain criteria as a suspected positive covert case, but they need to be tested. so those who can afford some private facility to test

themselves, those are the ones that are present to the symptoms. we will test them to be easy, but the challenges for those patients that i see some of my clinics is the ones that cannot afford the tests and hesitant and need to go to govern facility. some of them will go there. some are reluctant because of the cues, and the fact that the not positive they feel they make it infected too. so that's how it starts. we investigate them, you'll get the results coming. they have to go home and isolate until the results come back. we have to check the size of the family if to get a more comprehensive assessment of the patient than you would normally do. when the results come back, we have to be quite vigilant as to who's positive. we could have been a false positive for, i mean a false negative rather who may need to be seen again. those that have positive. there is a whole protocol of management, which didn't actually takes a quite a different cause. some live mild disease will have moderate live severe and you've

cut into your inflammatory marcus wanted to then get the oxygen levels monitor been sent to you every day. so we have a group of doctors in my clinics and kind of them. i'm hearing the, the importance of the detail of treatment, but if everyone getting this kind of treatment, not the no, because you got this sounds to me like rich people's treatment. oh no. so basically that, that's i tried to differentiate that. i mentioned those at goes to the state clinic, right? you will not get the kind of private treatment. they will go to the state clinic, but we in our group we will try and follow them up as much as possible to have protocols in place for them. you call me back when you get sick. the minutes deteriorate symptomatic li or will call you on day 7, or you call us back. we will decide we that you can get you into a government facility. so i was getting to that point when they starting to turn

was when the danger signs that coming up in the 2nd week of recall, it fight to kind storm. that's the danger and you see you to ok, let's find a bid for them. can to be managed at home, but each a patient that you spoke about. yes, we can manage to some degree as you had interviewed somebody in the and you said that i know the you set up some facilities to take the burden off i the hospital. ok, but your private but your price, the poor patient, the majority of them, i think we missing them. they're not getting that access. and while i'm near big metro center like joanna speaking, how thing that those are the out in the rural areas. they have very little excess, so we don't know how many we missing that we not testing. we don't know how many that are tested positive are not getting the follow up k. so we don't omni we losing. and so we don't really have a clue of actually the actual spectrum of the damage the desires is causing. we have statistics, we have the figures that have, let me have a conversation with dr. linda go. if i may, i will come back to you filtering the gal visual delta very we were ready for. we

knew that say, let me, let me rephrase this. we knew that would be variance, but was south africa ready for the delta variant? what's the damage being done? right now. yeah, so send me, i think the be to very and which of course was famous, the thought to come out of south africa. you know that cortes quite by store, you know, i think particularly because there was the recognition that this was far more transmissible and sprayed so quickly and really contributed to an extraordinary 2nd way. now we didn't know there was this delta variant occurring in other countries. in particular india, we saw the devastation in india in many respects, i guess it was, we knew it was just a matter of time. and so mid april, we started to feel like there was a change in the epidemic. there was just the same that the disease look slightly

different. many people were getting infected. we recognized the 3rd wave was coming . and of course that was the delta way. yes. i'm going to bring in here an additional voice start. does he have when he got on the show, talk to should be muggy. talk talk a little bit earlier and about the preparedness of south africa for multiple ways. 51. this is what he told us, that the avalanche have a luck. unfortunate re contributing to the number of cases i've been experience in the country. it's a consequence. i'll talk to africa having left behind when you come to the scene. and particularly to hide as kind of visual yes. so today just over 50 percent of people about the age of 60 conflict. united. but overall population less than 7 percent of individual pizza single subject seen in addition to which we're planning . but the god to ensuring that our health care facilities were adequately equipped

for a decision. so just making sure it gets out to in a number childcare facility, it's been completely overwhelmed. and they've been in adequate numbers in many centers to ensure adequate care of individuals that are being asked mr. to cover, maintain doctor owing that, that doctor mattie said and talked about being overwhelmed as the representative of the w h o. in south africa. you are there to help support the health ministry of south africa. why would another adult to say that the health system was being overwhelmed? are you seeing that too? yes. first of all, it me say that the indeed the data variant is really spreading quite a lot and it does become the dominant variant about is driving the same with but we have good provincial differences the, the, the, the, the biggest, upstage we did a video and of course is,

is inheriting the other provinces are also increasing, but destroy at 8 and i have not reached yet the state where our team has reached. indeed, in how tank there has been as easy his system as been overwhelmed in terms of the number of patients required in care. this situation was most oh, of course we did have a coming in which is either transmissible. this situation is as a result of that, but just to comment on the issue of via the vaccines as well. yes, it has been a delay in terms of the the out of the vaccine. unfortunately, few a few challenges with the bitter variant area on when some of the local studies had indicated that the stars in the car was not as, as was,

was not as protective. i was, if or if he cases, i guess the bit of agent didn't really work well, we did it, it was the astrazeneca vaccines didn't really work on, on the very of, over the south africans were, were experiencing at that time. so that put you put south africa back, that was a blow adult. linda gallagher has the yeah, definitely, i think say me, we, you know, we took that low on the chin. we had, you know, 1000000 vaccines ready to go, particularly for our frontline, how care work is inside me. i had dated to show that they would, this was not as effective against the beach variant. and so at that point, we took the decision to roll out jane j single dose, which we did have some day to run for health care workers. but we have been on the back foot for acquisition of, of covet 19 vaccines. and we should've been in

a better position before the 3rd wave we knew it was coming. and unfortunately we're behind in terms of vaccinating should be said. the commodity said less than 7 percent. i think it's around 3 point some by the name of the population has been baxon aged so far. so we have a long way to really long way to go. but i'm going to put this thought to you from youtube. if i may, on youtube, are audience what you're right now. a wondering, as they're watching on al jazeera, the news of riots protests that wondering if those gatherings are they going to be super sweaters, dr. yak up your thoughts? yes, most definitely. there would be subscribers. i mean, we've had of this credit event before in our country, and this is like a, i mean, if somebody's put it on social media, the divider smith smiling at these events because you've got the life opportunity and doesn't have to do much work. so this is just adding, so besides the,

the comments paid by respected colleagues does rice opportunity for the virus to spit and coming back to the point that other mutations with most definitely occur if we do not continue or other to our best to try and curb these kind of things, because mutations can take place in many scenarios where the vaccines are so far behind, it would be more mutations. there's more than vaccines that can cope with it. so we, we like in a melting pot here. we don't know, and i would, the perfect storm is just not correct. and the scenario painted to a doctor's day's work. what are the hospital days and what the health care workers are green on a daily basis. and now some of the health care workers have been looted in right that so there's less health facilities less mentioned the largest transport is getting. i would like to i would like to share that with you very tiny took video. it didn't take it for us. you took video of 150 for you. yeah. and you probably

think for the insurance company, but you know, it wasn't for me, it wasn't for me just from a colleague that just sent to us. let's tell us what we're seeing. we're going to play the video right now because we talk about the rights and the protests we're talking about with delta, very and how infectious. let's play the video. we're show it and then talk a through. what do we think this is a practice in quasi luna? and this is exactly what's happening. they were getting looted the broken in the middle of the night. and that's the scenario that took place there was things came through the broke through the next morning. the doctor was given the information in a no go area, couldn't visit the, it was getting pictures by the stuff that went there and to see it had been completely ransacked. to say me, we are seeing this, this happening all around the country, particularly as you read say, didn't a,

and they, you know, cause the you and how ting areas where, you know, distressingly clinical facilities are being deleted. and this is obviously the very worst thing that could happen at this time. and vaccines seem to have had to close down, which of course is the worst scenario for where we are in terms of the curve. 19 big way. i think so. so i just took, i mean for me indeed this has brought it much back in terms of the dispos took of it. i just, i don't, it's also affected essential health care services because us are victims. even those that have to take up the fuse for diseases like h, i v like d, b. so the, the essential services of health care services that are supposed to be provided have also been affected. and then in addition to that,

the livelihoods of the people and those will also be affected. so not only is they putting people at risk in terms of, of it in terms of b superscript, but also in terms of the very ability to be able to take care of people. and what if you increase if you've ever ability, in terms of them not being able to have a job or last week, this is a mix. the impact of coffee eat much harder on the affected community present or i'm opposed, spoke about the impact like you know, you to you 3 dots is all of the impact on trying to tackle with delta, very up right now in south africa and what the riots is and the protesters, the impact that they're having on that aim. this is him from just a day or 2 ago. this, the president poses, are sick, cannot get medication from pharmacies,

food does not reach supermarket shelves. and health workers cannot go to work. our vaccination program has been severely disrupted, just as it is gaining momentum. i want to show this tweet that was sent to us from you nathi claudser. and she talks about the de coney and jot down regulations exasperated crisis. south africa has been grappling with the rate of unemployment has been the cause of anti investment of race base policies that this government is determined to embrace is a political angle that to her, to her tweet. but what people are saying when i've been watching those interviews of right isn't protestors on the streets, is that they are poor and they have had enough. and then there's covert 19 as well . they can't work that businesses have been to the live is have been impacted. it's just layer upon layer upon layer of disaster doctor lives ago.

yeah, i think stayed me. you right. i have the same that we're sitting on a powder cake. you know, and, and these no doubt that the country is, as we say in south africa, hatful, which means, you know, we kind of had enough and, and unfortunately, you know, whilst we have on the one hand, a how system met, overwhelmed in the government doing what they can to try and contain through npi the restrictions the lockdown to say tra, this is just fueling that seems of lack of control, lack of ability to have an impact on their own destinies. and i think this is what to really, you know, resulting in people feeling out of control and, and adding to that. and that we see that if we go back to the health, i say there is a way, there is a way out of this and, and it's vaccines. it's like,

how fast can you get africans vaccinated? this is vicky. she is a researcher, and she's like a little bit early about vaccines and rolling out the vaccines and where south africa is right now. have a list and have a look. i think definitely some vaccine hesitancy in south africa. how even now that we have the vaccine here, i think it is definitely reduced. so i think right now on the machine, i say it is a stock availability, but us or our infrastructure that's available to actually that garage next. and a people to the most likely have to move that seem to seem daily. however, currenty, unfortunately with the rights that are happening in south africa at the moment that has really reduce the number of sd and science available all the way down to a massive reductions. and the number of estimates for every day does yak of what difference confess make to your, your patient care. so that will make

a huge difference, because obviously that change the cornerstone to try to control the panoramic. but just to comment on the radio that we've had colleagues of applied to the vaccine centers to meet the requirements and surely are far more vaccine center can be set up. and the number of dr. grouping's in i p as it is, independent practitioner organizations, are willing to become vaccine centers, but sure, regulations and rules to set up the section set is a pretty big dive. a lot of us have been involved in clinical trials before. we've given vaccines for years in our practices, a child to track seen an ongoing travel vaccines. but again, there's just too much bureaucracy in our country. and even the previous argument about layer upon the you can understand it. we just don't help ourselves. we just make things a lot more difficult and i think he should be loosened up. this should be a lot more collaboration between private and public so that we can really get this thing going much faster. and everybody's keen, i mean from the 1st day from over

a week, number 1, march 26. last year the health care workers have been at the forefront not only in terms of working the private practices, but they're willing to give all the time. but this just hasn't been enough. coming back from the bureau. bureaucracy has just been free. but if you have the end of the health ministry, can you cut down the oxy? well yeah. i know that not to be a no doctor. i shifted uncomfortably and he said, no, that is not possible. i know that the, the, the, the department of health is waking quite a lot towards speeding up the whole process. logins as to what does that mean issue . i mean, how, how far, let me, let me it up, what it looking 1st of all at ensuring that they're adequate vaccines to be

able to be rolled out. secondary looking at the space, shutting that they built, the, the, the, the demand to be able to speed up even to get people accepted. that's why they're even opening up nowadays. that people who can even walk who have been registered to walking, to get their vaccinations. but also trying to be with the assist him to increase of sites for vaccinations so that more vaccine could be, could be provided as a moment. or do they have opened up the vaccination to to those were at least to the registration to those were $55.00 to do to, to $49.00 having already started the 50 and above. so yes, the, the, the, the process should be faster because will have much better impact if we do speed up

as the vaccination. maybe for this particular wave. we might not experience the benefit of having rode out to the vaccine. but we know we as all come new variance will probably may or may be built before the wave. so we did, it will be a full flash where we do. yeah, i've learned from all of you, but never sent doctors that have been on the stream as the past 16 months is. there will be another way i want to ask you right now, and it's a yes or no, or one comment question dr. o and how optimistic are you right now about vaccines being rolled out across south africa? one word i'm reasonably optimistic if we knew have vaccine supplies. if, if, if you don't know how up to mystical is right now, i'm not optimistic because it's not the only if the doctor over there with judy spect is talking about the historically. and now the process is just too slow,

and i can't see anything working at this rate the time. i'm not going to say your candle, doctor linda gal. we need vaccines. that's the main constraints. we need the vaccines to come into country and you know that that's, that's really the biggest ask. yeah. thought is thank you so much. talk to linda gower, dot jack of dot owing, appreciate you being on the street today and sharing your expertise about the closing 19 delta variance in south africa and the impact that he's having watching everybody the next time. ah, the

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