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Covid restrictions also prevented Rosa Munch from taking on new residents, with the result that our income vs expenses started to become lopsided,\u201d said Ingram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him trouble started during the night of Easter Sunday, April 2018, when Rosa Munch\u2019s bank account was hacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA total of R1.2 million was withdrawn from our account. The bank refused to take responsibility and that in turn had a massive effect on our finances, and currently we are still feeling the effect of this loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring 2021 we were facing a precarious situation, in which our salary bill was equal to 90% of our income, and the only way out was to start looking at retrenchment of staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur ratio of one staff for every five residents per shift could no longer be maintained, and we found ourselves with a ratio of one staff for every two residents. 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