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6 workers test positive for COVID-19 at Netcare’s Kingsway Hospital
All new patient admissions at Kingsway Hospital have been halted indefinitely.
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Masuku: COVID-19 makeshift hospital to fit over 2,000 beds
The facility forms part of the government’s response to flattening the curve against COVID-19.
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Makhura: Not enough people practising social distancing
Makhura urged South Africans to stop panic buying in order to reduce overcrowding and potential infections.
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Contact tracing ‘now a challenge’ after Gauteng family tried to avoid quarantine
The family refused to be quarantined after a woman and her daughter tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Gauteng’s first confirmed coronavirus patient recovering well: Masuku
The department confirmed she had tested positive after she had direct contact with the first patient from KwaZulu-Natal.
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Staff at 3 hospitals 'trained' to deal with possible coronavirus outbreak
Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, Steve Biko Academic Hospital and Tembisa Hospital have been identified to deal with any patients that test positive.
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Gauteng Health Dept compensates Martha Marais for ill-treatment
76-year-old Martha Marais was found by her family restrained under a bench, lying on the tiled floor, at the Mamelodi Hospital last year.
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Gauteng hospitals deliver 390 babies on Christmas Day
The 183 girls and 207 boys, including one set of twins, were delivered at hospitals and healthcare centres around the province.
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Gauteng hospital welcomes 6 babies - all boys - on Christmas Day
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku was at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg on Christmas morning and met the newborn babies and their moms.
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Does SA have enough money to fix public healthcare?
On Wednesday, Eyewitness News revealed how a pregnant woman was trapped inside a toilet at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus for more than an hour while in labour.
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Mom's nightmare labour ordeal highlights poor state of govt hospitals
A pregnant woman has told Eyewitness News how she was trapped inside a toilet at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus for more than an hour while she was in labour.
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Gauteng Health Dept concerned by high number of violent deaths
In the past financial year, over 4,800 deaths were recorded as a result of gunshots, stabbing and assault.
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Gauteng Health Dept to ‘prioritise’ mental health, wellbeing of staff
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku said a programme would be launched next week aimed at improving the wellbeing of staff.
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DA urges Gauteng govt to terminate doctors' training programme in Cuba
The DA's Jack Bloom said the program cost more than R2 million per person for a full course of six years. However, in South Africa, medical training cost less than R1 million for a shorter study period.
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Health MEC Masuku: Baby kidnapping at Bara Hospital highlights holes in security
The baby girl was snatched from her sleeping mother during visiting hours on Thursday by a woman who claimed to be the grandmother.
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UPDATE: Baby kidnapped at Chris Hani Hospital found alive
It was believed the mother was sleeping next to her newborn when the child was snatched during visiting hours on Thursday.
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SAHRC urges MEC Masuku to clean up health facilities
Gauteng SAHRC manager Buang Jones said a number of health facilities had been isolated for receiving reports from the medical staff of appalling working conditions.
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ANC NEC discussions to include EFF, ANCYL and Nigeria collapse
The postponement of the national ANCYL conference next week is likely to feature prominently.
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ANCYL accuses Kasrils of troublemaking
Bandile Masuku says Kasrils is trying to derail the voting process for his own 'selfish interest'.
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ANCYL looks to mother body for help
The ANC Youth League’s interim leadership said it is up to the ANC to help it settle its debt.
