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Western Cape health facilities are under pressure as more Covid-19 patients require hospitalisation. File photo.Image: Aron Hyman

Covid-19 surge and trauma patients put Western Cape hospitals under ‘severe strain’

Hospitals across the Western Cape were under “severe pressure” on Sunday due to a sharp increase in patients with severe Covid-19. The provincial health department said in a statement that a steep increase in non Covid-19 trauma cases was…

Gauteng has recorded an additional 64 deaths overnight, while the number of those admitted with coronavirus in private and public facilities increased by 1,516, the health department said.Image: Picture: MICHELE SPATARI/AFP

1‚500 people admitted with Covid-19 in Gauteng hospitals in just one day

An extra 1‚516 people were admitted in Gauteng hospitals in just 24 hours‚ the provincial government confirmed on Monday. In the same period‚ from Saturday to Sunday‚ 64 deaths were recorded. Spokesperson Kwara Kekana said on Monday that…

The Rev Dr Elizabeth Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni field hospital in Port Elizabeth, a former VW factory. Planned field hospitals in other parts of the province are not operational.Picture: WERNER HILLS

Conflicting reports on full hospitals in the Eastern Cape

MFUNDO PILISO The worst fear of people in the Eastern Cape is now a reality – hospitals in the province are full, while the Covid-19 pandemic is still only approaching its peak around the country. Two special advisers to the provincial…

Gauteng wants to pay medical negligence victims in kind, not cash

By MICHELLE GUMEDE The provincial health department wants to be able to withhold most of a R23m award to pay for the child’s future medical expenses, in a case that has reached the Constitutional Court The Gauteng health department will…

Cheating nurses told to swot again – exams have to be rewritten

Thousands of qualified nurses may have cheated in exams they wrote in May to improve their qualifications. This experts say could constitute a crisis in the health system – affecting both patients’ and doctors’ trust in nurses’ honesty…