Groote schuur hospital
Staff member sets up food garden at Groote Schuur Hospital
The tube feeding operator, Keanan Collins, spoke on the Afternoon Drive with John Maytham about this project to bring healthy food to the hospital.
The NGO has donated R5 million to kickstart a Groote Schuur Hospital project aiming to reduce the massive backlog in patients waiting for essential surgery at the facility.
The hospital, like many others, has had to delay most medical procedures to care for coronavirus patients.
The NGO has challenged South Africans and businesses to match its R5 million donation to the Surgical Recovery Project - in order to ensure these operations can happen and patients' well being can be restored.
Firefighters are on the scene and no injuries have been reported.
The Da Vinci Xi robotic system allows surgeons to perform procedures in numerous parts of the abdomen and can also be used for thoracic as well as head-and-neck surgeries.
Musicians took up positions in front of Groote Schuur Hospital's main entrance for a lunch hour outdoor concert.
Authorities are on high alert as dozens of protesters took to the Groote Schuur Hospital on Saturday, staging an anti-COVID vaccination demonstration.
With the country gripped in a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital managers have on Monday warned there now is an increased risk of spreading the coronavirus.
Dr Abhaya Karki said getting a vaccine for the country was a key step towards winning the fight against the pandemic.
Health officials said that just weeks after the Sars-Cov-2 variant was identified, clinicians observed a distinct difference in the cohort of COVID-19 patients requiring ICU care.
The Western Cape Blood Service currently has a two to three-day supply, a five-day supply is what's required.
At least 584 health workers at the hospital have contracted the disease and five have died.
The study is hosted by the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, a body that includes experts working at around 400 hospitals and research institutions in 52 countries.
Zukiswa Maqana spent weeks in Groote Schuur Hospital's intensive care unit.
The Western Cape Health Department said that Groote Schuur, as well as Tygerberg Hospital, have enough bed capacity for additional patients.
Groote Schuur Hospital's professor Marc Mendelson was speaking on a panel of expert, giving insight into the treatment of infected patients in a hospital setting.
This is one of the details that emerged during a webinar on Thursday, co-hosted by the South African Medical Research Council.
Nineteen health workers in the province have died after being infected with the coronavirus.