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After more than 100 days in neonatal intensive care, baby Ephraim Maleho is at home with brother Llyle, mother Beneline and father Melvory van Wyk.Image: Supplied
AMNIOTIC SAC

How Cape Town doctors used an amniotic sac to save a baby’s life

A Cape Town doctor’s decision to save a mother’s amniotic sac during a complex C-section birth has saved the life of baby Ephraim Maleho, who was born with vital organs outside his abdomen. Ephraim’s intestines and half his liver were…

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BIG SQUEEZE: Sister Thelma Sishuba attends to Greshem Lewies, 26, in a corridor that has to be used as an observation area at the Malabar clinic because of chronic space shortages at the facility. The overcrowding was brought to light on Thursday during an oversight visit led by DA provincial leader Nqaba BhangaImage: EUGENE COETZEE
BABY

Nurses deliver twins in room where they have lunch

Nurses at the Malabar clinic had to deliver premature twins on a consultation bed in the same room they eat their lunch because of an acute shortage of space at the facility. The situation is so bad that a passageway is being used as a…

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