The Democratic Alliance (DA) has unveiled the party’s coronavirus (COVID-19) Action Plan aimed at lessening the impact of the pandemic on the country’s overburdened public health system.
The plan was launched by party interim leader John Steenhuisen during a virtual media briefing.
Steenhuisen says the plan will ensure better medical treatment for all South Africans and ensure a stronger prevention campaign to reduce the strain on the country’s health system.
Today the DA will send to the Presidency a Covid19 Action Plan that will ensure better healthcare treatment for all South Africans, as well as a far stronger prevention campaign to minimise the imminent strain on our healthcare system. – @jsteenhuisen https://t.co/7QXEMwxjtm
— Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) July 16, 2020
“This plan, however, gives government a way out of this crises. It focuses on 10 key points that will be able to ensure that we save both lives and livelihoods going forward. This includes efficient decision-making structures, a coordinated testing programme and an efficient and effective contact tracing. The quarantine and immunisation of facilities, communications campaigns, evidence-based protocols and regulations for this … the rapid (building) of hospitals, the provision of basic oxygen across the country; the staffing of the field hospitals, as well as the re-prioritisations of the funding.”
Government will have to explain to South Africans why it places their lives so low on its list of priorities. Govt will also have to explain what it was doing for more than three months while our country was in lockdown, as millions of people lost all they had. – @jsteenhuisen
— Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) July 16, 2020
