OPINION|Women Continue To Play A Leading Role Even During COVID-19, Says Mamabolo

JACOB MAMABOLO

ON behalf of the Gauteng Department of Health I would like to express appreciation for all women health workers at the frontline during this women’s month. The year 2020 and the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the health system and society in general.

The outbreak of the pandemic has not only changed the way in which society functions, but also how health personnel deal with the day to day activities in hospitals.

While hospital facilities continue to be places where lives are birthed and people are healed, the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has taken away the aspect of affection and expressed sympathy that normally is the thread that binds health workers during both difficult and joyous times.  

The World Health Organisation has declared the year 2020 as the year of the Nurse and Midwife, these being professions that are dominated by