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FILE: Former President Jacob Zuma at the state capture commission on 17 July 2019. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

Hospital

Zuma still in hospital on eve of arms deal court appearance

By Mia Lindeque

Zuma was taken for an annual routine check-up on Friday at an outside hospital while he is under strict correctional services supervision.

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    Two people killed in fire inside COVID ward in Limpopo

    The blaze broke out at the F.H Odendaal Hospital earlier on Tuesday morning.

    377 days ago
  • A grab taken from a UGC video obtained from Basim Almohand / ESN, shows Iraqi firefighters battling flames after a fire erupted at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital reserved for the most severe COVID-19 cases, in the capital Baghdad, on April 25, 2021. Picture: Basim Almohand / AFP.

    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.

    386 days ago
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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.

    429 days ago
  • FILE: Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini greets his supporters at The Moses Mabhida Football Stadium in Durban on 7 October 2018. Picture: AFP

    King Zwelithini in ICU due to unstable glucose levels

    The king is a known diabetic.

    463 days ago
  • Western Cape head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said that since 28 December, when the alcohol ban was reinstated, there'd been a significant and sustained decline in alcohol-related trauma cases. Picture: 123rf.com

    Alcohol ban has eased burden on health facilities, says WC Health Dept

    The provincial Health Department said more beds have been freed up hospitals.

    487 days ago
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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.

    488 days ago
  • A Registered Nurse tends to a Covid-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California on January 11, 2021.  Picture: Ariana Drehlser/AFP

    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.

    488 days ago
  • This handout photo released by the press officer of Diego Armando Maradona shows Argentine football legend Diego Maradona (R) shaking hands with his doctor Leopoldo Luque in Olivos, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on 11 November 2020. Picture: AFP

    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.

    550 days ago
  • FILE: Police tape at a crime scene. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    JMPD officer recovering in hospital after being shot in the stomach

    Malvin Maswanganyi was attacked in Lehae on Sunday night.

    601 days ago
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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.

    913 days ago
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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.

    2052 days ago
  • A doctor sutures a man's nose and face after he was admitted to the Khayelitsha District Hospital's trauma unit. Picture: Anthony Molyneaux/EWN

    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.

    2162 days ago
  • Emergency physicians working at Khayelitsha District Hospital's trauma unit tend to a man with multiple stab wounds. Picture: Anthony Molyneaux/EWN

    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.

    2162 days ago
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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.

    2169 days ago
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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.

    2196 days ago
  • The electronic bed management system (eBMS) allows medical staff to seamlessly identify the location of available beds across the cluster, thereby improving patient movement and management. Picture: Masego Rahlaga/EWN.

    Technology to cut waiting time at GP hospitals

    The electronic bed management system has officially been implemented at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital.

    2218 days ago
  • FILE. Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu said an investigation has been launched into what happened at the ward and whether the nurses are guilty of what they’ve been accused of. Picture: freeimages.com.

    Staff tried stopping patient from reporting horror death

    A mother watched her baby die while nurses allegedly ignored her cries for help.

    2463 days ago
  • FILE: GF Jooste was decommissioned last year, with the Provincial Government planning to build a new facility at a cost of 785 million Rand.Picture: Giovanna Gerbi/ EWN

    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.

    2478 days ago
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