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KZN Health Dept concerned about steady rise in new COVID cases in province
The number of daily infections in KwaZulu-Natal has started increasing following the two weeks of unrest in that province.
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‘We feel like there’s hope now:’ KZN healthcare workers get COVID-19 vaccine
KZN has received 10,800 of the 80,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses that have touched down in the country so far.
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KZN health dept: We still have no clarity on COVID vaccine rollout
But KwaZulu-Natal’s Health Department head doctor Sandile Tshabalala has told the province’s health portfolio committee that staff members will be ready once the plan has been shared.
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KZN can't increase hospital bed capacity due to specialist shortages, Parly told
KwaZulu-Natal’s provincial head of health, Dr Sandile Tshabalala, spelled out some of the challenges the province is facing, including a shortage of specialist nurses and doctors to allow for more beds for patients needing critical or high care.
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Wentworth Hospital was under ‘immense pressure’ when viral video was taken - MEC
The video shows patients in chairs or lying on the floor, with no healthcare workers in sight despite patients calling urgently for help.
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KZN Health Dept insists massive drop in active COVID-19 cases is accurate
According to official figures, between Monday and Tuesday this week, the number of active cases decreased by more than 27,000.
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COVID-19 second wave could be difficult to handle in KZN, says NICD
The province has over 80,000 active cases at the moment, more than any other province has had at once.
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Alcohol sales ban will free up hospital beds for COVID-19 patients - KZN Health
KZN Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu said that the provincial government had moved with great speed to create capacity in various ways to try and manage the spread of the virus.
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COVID-19: KZN Health MEC dismisses reports of hospitals running out of beds
Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu on Wednesday labelled reports that the province is facing a bed capacity crisis as 'disingenuous'.
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KZN Health MEC condemns torching of R6m hospital building by community
A security guard was injured in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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KZN gets additional R1.5bn from national govt to fight COVID-19
Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu revealed the figure while launching a newly refurbished quarantine and isolation site at the Clairwood Hospital in Durban.
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KZN welcomes 28 Cuban doctors to assist with COVID-19 response
The health professionals formed part of the 217 that were deployed to the country by the Cuban government to assist in the fight against COVID-19.
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KZN Health Dept receives donation of specialised COVID-19 testing vehicles
The province currently has 902 confirmed cases of the virus with 30 recorded deaths and 241 recoveries.
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Talks between KZN Health Dept, unions over Durban mortuary to resume
Union representatives have told Eyewitness News that talks between them and the provincial health department were starting to yield results.
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Pawusa halts planned mortuary strike after meeting with KZN Health Dept
Last Thursday, workers downed tools at the Magwaza Maphalala Street Mortuary following the return of a manager.
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KZN Health Dept calls for calm after swine flu death confirmed
This comes after a nine-year-old girl died on Friday after being suspected of having influenza also known as H1N1.
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Patients evacuated after 'mysterious' fire at Durban’s Addington Hospital
The cause of the fire was not yet known.
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Lobby group unhappy with KZN Health tender process
A lobby group called the Federation for Radical Economic Transformation (FFRET) which is accused of holding the KZN Health HOD 'hostage' says it is tired of tenders being mostly awarded to Indians.
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KZN Health pumps millions into resolving oncology crisis
Head of KZN Health Department Musa Gumede told the commission that millions have been spent on efforts to deal with oncology problems in the province.
