R256 million Field Hospital with 5 corona patients in Oct.
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The Government has signed some incredibly expensive tenders. If only there were prominent Christians in Government to help them in decision making. Some of the decisions were clearly made in fear. And we know decisions made in fear is not from God and will have undesired consequences.
Christians need to be heard more in SA’s Government. We need to have a permanent presence in Government to counter the fearful, or SA will continue to go from disaster to disaster. We need more Christian political parties, more Christian representatives in decision making roles.
God says He will restore all the years the enemy stole from us. “Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm….” So whatever the enemy tried to steal from our economy can be recovered.
God did not give Christians the spirit of fear. So check yourself if you are fearful, seek help from your Pastor or contact us. “2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
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The R256-million Field Hospital
The Gauteng Health Department have confirmed that the Nasrec Field Hospital will remain open until January 2021. This is despite that only 5 patients being admitted in October 2020. The purpose of the hospital was to alleviate the burden of Coronavirus patients at clinics and hospitals across Johannesburg.
Jacob Mamabolo, the Gauteng acting MEC for health, said that the threat of Covid-19 infections has not been sufficiently reduced to justify a closure of the field hospital. He said the risk of a second wave of covid infections were too high.
The department said that five patients have been admitted so far in October, while 21 patients were treated at the facility in September. “Nasrec will only close after January 2021, which is a key milestone post the festive season. The department will be monitoring the festive season period closely as it relates to Covid-19 infections.”
The R250-million Field Hospital The facility boasts 500 beds with quarantine and isolation facilities and a 1,000 bed step-down hospital facility. DA Health MEC Jack Bloom that the cost to keep the field hospital open until the end of January could be as much as R256-million. “This is really exorbitant as only 604 people were quarantined or isolated, and only 96 patients were treated there for this period. It amounts to R96,000 paid for each quarantined/isolated person, and R720,000 for each patient treated at the field hospital,” he said.
Citing Mamabolo, Democratic Alliance Gauteng health MEC, Jack Bloom said that R58.1 million was paid by the end of August for the 500 bed quarantine and isolation facility, and R69.3 million for the 1,000 bed step-down hospital facility. Bloom said that the cost to keep the field hospital open until 31 January next year could be as much as R256 million.
“This is really exorbitant as only 604 people were quarantined or isolated, and only 96 patients were treated there for this period. It amounts to R96,000 paid for each quarantined/isolated person, and R720,000 for each patient treated at the field hospital,” he said.
According to Bloom, the department is paying for the 1,000-bed facility to ensure that there is capacity for a possible second wave of infections, or the possibility of an infection spike over the holiday period in December. The original projected cost was R350-million but is now between R157-million and R256-million for all costs. This includes assets to be recovered. “This is hugely wasteful expenditure. There were clear signs after the initial alarmist projections that the Covid-19 epidemic would peak in July rather than in August/September as was originally expected. There was no scenario that infections would be surging in January next year, yet a six month contract for 1,000 beds was signed on 1 August with the Joburg Expo Centre which runs Nasrec.”
Read more on https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/442274/r256-million-to-keep-joburg-field-hospital-open-until-january-despite-admitting-only-5-patients-in-october/
Nationwide calls to prayer
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The Good News in all these uncertainties is that, as the church prays, miracles happen and circumstances change. None of the so-called “expert’s models” have realised anywhere in the world. Its because of serious prayer. When the Church applies the Word, Good will prevail. Acts 12: 5-11. The sooner the Church wakes up and rises to the occasion the better.
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