Meer vryheid en vakansiepret het ook meer geweld en padongelukke beteken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met die verslapping van Covid-19-regulasies gedurende die feestyd aan die einde van 2021 het meer Weskussers weens geweld, drankmisbruik en padongelukke gesterf, in vergelyking met dieselfde tydperk in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Vryheid van beweging<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Groot was vakansiegangers se vreugde toe die nuus vroeg in Desember 2021 bekend gemaak is dat Covid-19-regulasies nie weer hul feestydpret soos in Desember 2020 gaan bederf nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gedurende die 2020-feestyd is regulasies verskerp weens \u2019n toename in Covid-infeksies. Hierdie regulasies het onder meer \u2019n drankverbod, uiters beperkende aandklokre\u00ebl en die sluiting van alle Suid-Afrikaanse strande ingesluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In plekke soos Elandsbaai en Lambertsbaai is teleurgestelde besoekers se vakansies op 29 Desember 2020 summier kortgeknip. Hulle is slegs \u2019n paar kort uur gegun om hul goed op te pak en met hul tente en woonwaens terug huis toe te keer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Besiger paaie lei tot meer padongelukke<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten spyte van groot ontevredenheid oor die regulasies van die 2020-feestyd wat talle mense se vakansies in die wiele gery het, is wetstoepassingsowerhede en gesondheidsdienste aan die Weskus dit eens dat die streng re\u00ebls van Desember 2020 tot minder noodlottige padongelukke, geweld en moorde gelei het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alhoewel die vierde vlaag Covid-19-infeksies vroeg in Desember 2021 getref het, het die Omikron-variant mense volgens kenners nie so ernstig siek gemaak soos die vorige variante nie en is regulasies verslap. Mense was dus weer vry om snags rond te ry, drank te koop en die strande te geniet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Des Paton, streekdirekteur van provinsiale verkeersdienste vir die Weskus, s\u00ea die sterftes en beserings op Weskuspaaie het redelik gestyg in Desember 2021 en Januarie 2022 in vergelyking met die vorige jaar se feestyd. Talle ongelukke het veelvoudige slagoffers in Desember 2021 en Januarie 2022 ge\u00ebis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens hom het munisipale gebiede ook \u2019n styging in voetgangersterftes gesien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSpoed, dronkbestuur, mense wat versuim om hul veiligheidsgordels te dra en roekelose bestuur was die afgelope feestyd hoog op die oortredingslys,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea. Heelwat dronkbestuurders is in hegtenis geneem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVolgens statistieke was daar heelwat meer voertuie op ons paaie. Covid het mense ingehok en Desember 2021 was \u2019n geleentheid om uit te kom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Hospitaalsale stiller, maar\u2026<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Leensie Lotter, woordvoerder van die provinsiale departement van gesondheid vir die Weskus, het die strenger inperkings van Desember 2020 inderdaad \u2019n daling in die aantal traumagevalle in die gebied getoon, veral oor die groot feesdae soos Oujaarsaand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie aandklokre\u00ebl en beperking op alkoholverkope het \u2019n afname in die aantal gevalle teweeg gebring. In Desember 2021 het ons merkbaar meer traumagevalle gehad, veral wat alkoholverwante trauma betref,\u201d het Lotter verduidelik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Weens die verslapping van Covid-regulasies en die \u201cswakker\u201d Omikron-variant het die omstandighede by die Life Weskus Privaathospitaal in Vredenburg in Desember 2020 in vergelyking met Desember 2021 ook soos dag en nag verskil. Volgens Annette Olls, die hospitaalbestuurder, is daar ongetwyfeld \u2019n groot verskil tussen Desember 2020 en Desember 2021 wat hospitaal-innames betref.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gedurende Desember 2020 tot Januarie 2021 het die hospitaal alle beskikbare toerusting en ventilators gebruik. Slegs een saal het nie Covid-19 pasi\u00ebnte gehad nie. Personeel is gehuur van ander provinsies om te kom help, want 25% van die hospitaal se personeel is deur die virus geraak. Olls s\u00ea spesialiste het skofte in die ho\u00ebsorgeenheid gewerk om die druk op verpleegpersoneel te verlig. Suurstof is teen \u2019n vreesaanjaende spoed gebruik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Olls is baie mense gedurende die feestyd van Desember 2021 tot Januarie 2022 positief vir die virus getoets, maar net enkele pasi\u00ebnte is met ernstige simptome opgeneem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Omikron-variant het beteken die hospitaal is minder vol, maar sy s\u00ea daar was in vergelyking met die vorige tydperk \u2019n toename in ongevalle as gevolg van drankmisbruik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Jenny van der Merwe wat in die ongevalle-afdeling werk s\u00ea egter die beperking van vakansiegangers se beweging weens die aandklokre\u00ebl in Desember 2020 het inderwaarheid \u2019n heelwat groter impak as die drankverbod op die hoeveelheid ongevalle in 2020 versus 2021 gehad. Virale gastro-enteritis (maaggriep) en voedselvergiftiging was die grootste rede vir mense se besoek aan ongevalle in Desember 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Verwantskap tussen drankmisbruik en geweld<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens kapt. Tania Helfrich, woordvoerder van die Vredenburg-polisiekluster wat tien plaaslike polisiekantore insluit (onder meer Saldanha, Langebaan, St. Helenabaai en Piketberg), is daar ongetwyfeld \u2019n verband tussen drankmisbruik en geweld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luit.kol. Roland Leibrandt, Vispol-bevelvoerder van Vredenburg-polisie, s\u00ea die aandklokre\u00ebl en inperkings van Desember 2020 het gewis \u2019n impak op geweldsmisdaad gehad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In di\u00e9 tydperk is minder geweldsmisdade gerapporteer en ook baie minder strafbaremanslagsake, in vergelyking met Desember 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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