Hospital
Two people killed in fire inside COVID ward in Limpopo
The blaze broke out at the F.H Odendaal Hospital earlier on Tuesday morning.
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Fire kills 82 at Iraqi Covid hospital, health minister suspended
Many of the victims were on respirators and were suffocated or burned in the smoke and flames when the blaze at eastern Baghdad's Ibn al-Khatib hospital started with an explosion caused by "a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders", medical sources said.
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Jordan oxygen shortage linked to six coronavirus deaths
Jordan's King Abdullah II ordered the head of the state hospital in the town of Salt northwest of Amman to resign, state media reported, as hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital to protest the deaths.
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King Zwelithini in ICU due to unstable glucose levels
The king is a known diabetic.
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Alcohol ban has eased burden on health facilities, says WC Health Dept
The provincial Health Department said more beds have been freed up hospitals.
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More beds, but not enough health workers: Gauteng worried as COVID cases mount
The province has recorded over 340,000 cases and about 6,395 COVID-19 related deaths, Gauteng has the second-highest number of active cases in the country.
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Rural California hospital overwhelmed by Covid
When AFP visited St Mary hospital in this desert town of 70,000 people this week, palliative care supervisor Kari McGuire said her team were seeing "astronomical numbers of patients who are dying" from the novel coronavirus.
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Maradona leaves hospital following surgery
Maradona did not speak to the crowd of journalists and chanting fans gathered outside in masks as he left the Olivos clinic in Buenos Aires by ambulance shortly after his doctor Leopoldo Luque told reporters he could go home.
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JMPD officer recovering in hospital after being shot in the stomach
Malvin Maswanganyi was attacked in Lehae on Sunday night.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Waiting room blues
The theatre of the absurd is exactly like the surgical theatre. Both of them play at confronting what we regard as the comfortable certainties of life whether they’re religious, political or moral, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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Yet another Life Esidimeni psychiatric patient dies
Nombulelo Mthembu was one of the patients transferred from the facility to another hospital.
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True grit: What it takes to be a trauma physician in SA
Dr. Sa’ad Lahri is no stranger to the chaos of a busy trauma unit, but he wouldn't change it for the world.
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Coping in chaos: Saturday night at Khayelitsha Hospital
Trauma physicians at Cape Town's Khayelitsha Hospital are well used to chaotic Saturday nights, when they might see multiple stabbing and gunshot victims come through the doors.
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Krugersdorp woman arrested in Limpopo for fraud
A 19-year-old woman was arrested after she used a fake US cardiologist certificate to apply for a job.
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Dubai's Abraaj to spend $500m growing African hospital business
Abraaj said the group was well on the way to securing land for a 350-bed multi-speciality hospital in Nigeria.
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Technology to cut waiting time at GP hospitals
The electronic bed management system has officially been implemented at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital.
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Staff tried stopping patient from reporting horror death
A mother watched her baby die while nurses allegedly ignored her cries for help.
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WC govt allocates budget for new Manenberg hospital
Helen Zille says they're in the process of finding a site in Manenberg for a new regional hospital.
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Evander patient murders fellow patient
It's understood a man attacked the 28-year-old patient with a drip-stand and stabbed him several times.
