source: Herald (South Africa)
actor1: Protesters (South Africa)
actor2: Police Forces of South Africa (1994-)
location: New Brighton
notes: On 6 May 2020, nurses from Empilweni TB Hospital, supported by NEHAWU, demonstrated outside the hospital in New Brighton (Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape) after the decision to turn the hospital into a coronavirus treatment centre. The nurses said that they have not been trained to treat coronavirus patients and the hospital does not have the right equipment to do so. Police intervened. [size=no report]