Posts tagged with 'KwaZulu-Natal'

 

#Covid19 First Confirmed Case of CoronaVirus Reported in South Africa in Kwazulu-Natal – patient returned from Italy.

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A 38 year old man who returned from Italy with his wife, in a tour group of 10, on March 1, has tested positive for CoronaVirus. The patient and doctor are self isolating.

The tracer team has been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal with epidemiologists & clinicians from NICD. The doctor has been self-isolated as well.A media briefing was issued to ensure that the public are immediately kept abreast #CoronaVirus

A press briefing will be held later after the parliamentary debate this evening to shed more light on this issue #CoronavirusOutbreak #CoronaVirusSA

It is almost certain that as soon as more testing occurs on a wider scale, many more cases will be discovered…

 

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Family left fuming as maggots found in mouth of Durban hospital patient

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Family left fuming as maggots found in mouth of Durban hospital patient

A Durban man whose father’s mouth was infested with maggots after he was admitted to RK Khan Hospital says he will not rest until the staff at the facility pay for neglecting him. Azaad Ebrahim said he was livid with the hospital after his 52-year-old father Abdul, who suffered a stroke and had mobility issues,..
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Healthcare in SA appalling – Elderly patients forced to wait 5 days for treatment at Durban hospital

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Healthcare in SA appalling - Elderly patients forced to wait 5 days for treatment at Durban hospital

You sit on a hard chair or lie on a thin gurney for five days, then you’re told to pack your things and go because the machine is broken and no treatment is available. That was the fate of a pensioner at Durban’s Addington Hospital who arrived for treatment on Monday and by lunchtime on..
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Durban’s meningitis warning after death of 7-year-old boy

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AT least 40 pupils as well as doctors, nurses and teachers in Amanzimtoti have been placed on antibiotics to prevent them from contracting a “very infectious” strain of meningitis following the death of a 7-year-old boy last week.

AT least 40 pupils as well as doctors, nurses and teachers in Amanzimtoti have been placed on antibiotics to prevent them from contracting a “very infectious” strain of meningitis following the death of a 7-year-old boy last week. Paediatrician Thesiga Reddy, one of the doctors who treated the boy at Kingsway Hospital, said he was..
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This is what the ANC-government did to SA’s health care! – Cancer patients in KZN must wait up to six months for mammogram screening

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This is what the ANC-government did to SA's health care! - Cancer patients in KZN must wait six month for mammogram screening

Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo is on record calling for people to get screened for early detection of cancers. And late last month, the national and provincial health departments launched a cancer campaign to educate people that many cancers were preventable or could be “successfully” treated through early detection and timeous treatment. However, more concerns..
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Lack of empathy causes disturbed patient being burned after being locked up in solitary confinement at Wentworth Hospital

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Lack of empathy causes disturbed patient being burned after being locked up in solitary confinement at Wentworth Hospital

A mentally disturbed patient was found with burns after being locked alone in a ward in the Wentworth Hospital in Durban, said the IVP. Ncamisile Nkwanyana, the IVP’s health spokeswoman in KwaZulu-Natal, said urgent action should be taken against medical staff who neglect mental-disturbed patients in health care institutions. “The neglect of such patients is..
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Traditional healer opens traditional hospital in KZN – only in South-Africa!

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Traditional healer makes history by opening traditional hospital in KZN

A traditional healer from Ingwavuma in the north of KZN has made history by forming a private hospital in Bhambanana area at Mhlabuyalingana. Dr Mxolisi Nkomonde (33), who is known as Dr Mkhulu, has opened a traditional hospital called Dr K Traditional Hospital, where he treats patients who are in need of traditional treatment. He..
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Rats feed on corpse in Nkonjeni District Hospital, KZN

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Rats feed on corpse in Nkonjeni District Hospital, KZN

When Bonokuhle Khali died in Nkonjeni District Hospital in Zululand, nurses left his body in a dimly lit corner in the male ward where rats spent hours eating the flesh on his face.

As his body lay just metres from sick patients in the ward, the rodents scurried under and over the sheet that covered it, chewing on his nose and lips.

“When I wanted to see my brother they first handed me a clear bag with rat droppings … that is how they told me my brother had been eaten by rats,” his furious brother Jerome Khali told the Sunday Times.
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Hospital of horrors – More than 150 feral cats creep into patients’ beds at Vryheid Hospital

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Hospital of horrors - More than 150 feral cats creep into patients’ beds at Vryheid Hospital

Patients say the feral cats have been sleeping in the general wards, sometimes climbing onto patients’ beds, and even stealing food out of patients’ plates.

MORE than 150 cats have made their home at the Vryheid Hospital.

Patients say the feral cats have been sleeping in the general wards, sometimes climbing onto patients’ beds, and even stealing food out of patients’ plates.
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LUR geskok oor pasiënte op bankies en vloere slaap by Church of Scotland-hospitaal

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LUR geskok oor pasiënte op bankies en vloere slaap by Church of Scotland-hospitaal

Sibongiseni Dhlomo, KwaZulu-Natalse LUR vir gesondheid, het die naweek tydens ʼn verrassingsbesoek aan die Church of Scotland-hospitaal pasiënte wat op bankies en die vloer slaap by die hospitaal aangetref.

Dhlomo het Sondag gevolglik vir die hospitaal se bestuur opdrag gee om ʼn gepaste plek te soek vir pasiënte om te slaap wanneer hulle oornag moet wag vir vervoer om hulle na ander hospitale in Pietermaritzburg te neem.
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