Residents unite in prayer for Covid-19 affected

IN an act of solidarity and faith, a few residents gathered in the public parking area in Wentworth Hospital to hold a prayer meeting.

The Friday, 8 January, informal gathering was held in support of the staff and patients at the hospital, whose lives are at risk daily as Covid-19 infections surge.

The group said they were inspired when the same act was carried out by another group of prayer warriors in the Western Cape.

“Can anything good come out of Wentworth? Yes, it can, because we can see this hospital turn around. We can see the sick healed and the dead resurrected. This is happening in a hospital in Mitchell’s Plain, so, why can’t God come and do it here for us?” said a hopeful Maureen Fayers.

Resident, Lance Fayers, said he was appreciative of the service he received at the hospital recently.

“Wentworth Hospital has potential. I was in there as a patient. People were wearing their masks and doctors and nurses had their PPE on. Although the wards are dilapidated, it is a result of poor management. If that could be sorted out, it will refine the hospital and put new life back into it. I had to wait for about three hours at a private hospital in Durban, whereas when I came to this hospital, they took my test right away,” he said.

Shantel Ogle called on every prayer intercessor to stand together as she believes that some things can only be done by the spirit.

“I call on everybody who believes in the promises of God to stand together because the word of God says where there is unity, God will command a blessing. Our plea is that they should not sit back because the community really needs to rise. There are people who can rise in the natural, but God is calling us the remnants to do it in the spirit. Come to the hospital or pray in your homes but we really need to stand together and call upon that name that is higher than every other name,” she said.