{"id":50076,"date":"2020-08-13T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/vwsa-brings-relief-to-healthcare-20200812-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:48:07","slug":"vwsa-brings-relief-to-healthcare-20200812-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/vwsa-brings-relief-to-healthcare-20200812-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VWSA brings relief to healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_63916a5d\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9101\/80513762b14d4cd1ab68b9ad0533309a.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9101\/4ed189c8c82d47428ec62146c42de42e.jpg\" title=\"VWSA assisted the National Health Laboratory Service by performing extensive renovations to turn an open office space into a fully-fledged Molecular Virology laboratory in the space of 18 days. These improvements would increase the testing capacity to over 3 000 tests a day. Photo:VWSA\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">VWSA assisted the National Health Laboratory Service by performing extensive renovations to turn an open office space into a fully-fledged Molecular Virology laboratory in the space of 18 days. These improvements would increase the testing capacity to over 3 000 tests a day. Photo:VWSA<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span>T<\/span>O better equip the healthcare facilities in Nelson Mandela Bay in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) has provided protective gear to the provincial Department of Health for frontline workers at healthcare institutions across the metro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The personal protective equipment (PPE), which was handed over to the department includes: 50 000 N95 personalised masks; 65 000 disposable gowns, 2 million latex and nitrile gloves as well as 1 000 visors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur frontline healthcare workers are in dire need of the PPE in order to feel safe and be able to do their work, which is to provide care and save the lives of our people,\u201d said Thomas Schaefer, former Chairman and Managing Director of VWSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is our wish that this PPE will bring relief and hope to healthcare workers who have been toiling under difficult circumstances to treat the COVID-19 patients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PPE will be distributed to staff at the three main COVID-19 hospitals in the Metro, which are Dora Nginza Hospital, Livingstone Hospital and Uitenhage Provincial Hospital, as well as other regional primary care clinics and COVID-19 test centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VWSA also handed over 200 digital infrared thermometers, 150 portable finger-tip pulse oximeters and 40 stand-alone table top pulse oximeters, which are critical medical equipment for the assessment and treatment of COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VWSA procured the protective equipment as part of their greater project to convert their former Port Elizabeth plant into the Rev. Dr Elizabeth Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni Field Hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding for both the hospital and the protective equipment was provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which committed R100 million to the project, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R10 million of this funding was used for protective equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Extensive renovations at laboratory<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Using R4 million of the funding from the BMZ, VWSA also supported the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) branch in Port Elizabeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">This laboratory is responsible for most of the COVID-19 testing in the metropole, with a current testing capacity of around 1 500 tests per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">VWSA assisted the NHLS by performing extensive renovations to turn an open office space into a fully-fledged Molecular Virology laboratory in the space of 18 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The company also analyzed and recommended improvements to the NHLS\u2019s testing processes to increase efficiency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">With a full staff complement, these improvements would increase the testing capacity to over 3 000 tests a day, thereby more than doubling the current daily testing capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cWe need to be able to trace the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic to fight it \u2013 the faster we act, the better we can keep it from spreading further,\u201d said Schaefer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cThat is why it is absolutely crucial for the NHLS to have the capability to analyse tests and deliver results quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cWe are also 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