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FILE: Two patients with COVID-19, one (L) breathing in oxygen, in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

Netcare

Some private healthcare providers reveal plans to deal with COVID fourth wave

By Ray White

The Health Department has been getting ready for an expected fourth wave and the private health sector has joined in.

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    398 days ago
  • Netcare Hospital has teamed up with financial services group Old Mutual to establish a vaccination site in in Pinelands, Cape Town, which opened on 21 June 2021. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News.

    Netcare teams up with Old Mutual to open a vaccination site in Pinelands

    Premier Winde on Monday afternoon opened a COVID-19 vaccination site at the Old Mutual Park offices in Pinelands, Cape Town.

    420 days ago
  • Netcare Pholoso Hospital in Polokwane. Picture: netcarehospitals.co.za

    Netcare sets up temporary hospital in Limpopo amid high COVID admission

    Netcare is the biggest private hospital group in South Africa and on Wednesday it said its staff were taking strain in some areas.

    586 days ago
  • Ashish Lata Ramgobin. Picture: Facebook

    Sentencing of Mahatma Gandhi’s great-granddaughter postponed to December

    Ashish Lata Ramgobin was convicted of fraud, forgery amounting to R6.2 million on Monday in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court.

    664 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    Netcare denies irresponsibility at St Augustine's led to COVID-19 outbreak

    Netcare said that 77 of the 80 healthcare workers who tested positive for COVID-19 at its St Augustine's Hospital in Durban had recovered.

    811 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    Netcare bolsters St. Augustines safety regulations after report release

    According to a report from a University of Kwazulu-Natal team of experts, the St. Augustine’s outbreak could be linked to 14% of all COVID-19 cases in KwaZulu-Natal.

    815 days ago
  • KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu. Picture: Nkosikhona Duma/EWN.

    KZN govt: UKZN didn’t consult Mkhize before releasing St Augustine's report

    The researchers conducted an independent investigation into the outbreak at the facility.

    816 days ago
  • FILE: The Netcare Ceres Hospital will start admitting patients from Friday. Picture: Abigail Xavier/EWN

    Netcare's Ceres Hospital reopens after COVID-19 infections

    Hospital management took immediate action to contain the spread of COVID-19 and to identify all possible contacts after two staff members tested positive.

    843 days ago
  • Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Nehawu claims another KZN Netcare facility facing COVID-19 outbreak

    The healthcare group is already dealing with outbreaks at its St Augustine's Hospital and Kingsway Hospital where it implemented partial shutdowns.

    846 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    7 more COVID-19 cases confirmed at Netcare's St Augustine's Hospital

    This means there are now 83 reported cases of COVID-19 at Netcare facilities in the metro.

    847 days ago
  • Netcare's Kingsway Hospital in Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. Picture: www.netcarehospitals.co.za

    4 more Kingsway Hospital health workers test positive for COVID-19

    The employees are the latest to contract the virus just days after an outbreak was reported at the facility.

    848 days ago
  • Netcare's Kingsway Hospital in Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. Picture: www.netcarehospitals.co.za

    6 workers test positive for COVID-19 at Netcare’s Kingsway Hospital

    All new patient admissions at Kingsway Hospital have been halted indefinitely.

    851 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    Woman speaks out after mom not tested for COVID-19 at St Augustine's hospital

    It’s not known if the patient did, in fact, contract the virus at the facility after being admitted for cardiovascular problems.

    852 days ago
  • Netcare's Kingsway Hospital in Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. Picture: www.netcarehospitals.co.za

    Kingsway Hospital shuts emergency dept, halts admissions after COVID-19 outbreak

    Netcare said that it had traced the outbreak to a patient who was admitted at the facility on 4 April.

    852 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    COVID-19: Durban's St Augustine’s Hospital to be kept under quarantine, says MEC

    Government officials said that 66 people connected with St Augustine’s Hospital had been diagnosed with COVID-19.

    858 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    Durban hospital shut down after fifth COVID-19 related death

    KZN Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu said the hospital had been shut indefinitely and officials were now in the process of transferring patients to other facilities.

    859 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    4 out 6 coronvirus deaths in KZN treated at hard hit St Augustine’s hospital

    Four of the six patients who have died from the coronavirus in KZN were treated at Netcare’s St Augustine’s hospital, which has now stopped all new admissions after 20 staff members tested positive for the virus.

    863 days ago
  • Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban. Picture: Google maps.

    COVID-19: Durban hospital shuts emergency dept after 11 staff test positive

    KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala said four of the six patients who have died from the virus in the province were treated at the hospital.

    864 days ago
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