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Medical experts hail refurbishment of paediatric ICU at Tygerberg Hospital
The public health sector has again benefitted from the Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust.
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Tygerberg Hospital's paediatric healthcare gets a boost
The Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust handed over customized units to the facility’s paediatrics ward on Monday.
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Help give Ezra the gift of hearing
Refilwe Moloto speaks to Dr André van Straten, ENT Specialist at the Tygerberg Hospital Cochlear Implant Unit, about the case of a young patient who is not only deaf, but is becoming blind as a result of Retinitis Pigmentosa. He needs a bilateral cochlear implant to help him hear.
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Robotic surgery helping Tygerberg Hospital cut into surgical backlog
Tybergberg Hospital in February incorporated robotic surgery as part of its clinical offering, which colorectal surgeon, Doctor Tim Forgan, explained held many benefits for both patients as well as the hospital.
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After landmark surgery, WC Health Dept stresses importance of quality healthcare
Officials have gathered at Tygerberg Hospital on Tuesday, to celebrate the state facility’s milestone of being the first in the country to perform robotic surgery.
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Tygerberg Hospital: SA's first public facility to use Da Vinci robot for surgery
Colorectal surgeon Dr Tim Forgan said the system held many positives for patients requiring complex abdominal surgery, but it could also be used for urological and gynaecological procedures.
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Tygerberg Hospital workers plead with the public to vaccinate
Exhausted and desperate for some relief, health workers at the coalface of the COVID-19 pandemic have little patience for vaccine denialists and anti-vax sentiments.
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CT doctors recount agony of watching unvaccinated people fight for lives in ICU
As fake news and misunderstood science drives vaccine hesitancy and even denialism, Cape Town doctors have been speaking out, urging people to get vaccinated.
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WC Health Dept looks back at lessons a year after first COVID-19 case reported
On 11 March 2020, the Western Cape had its first COVID-19 case, a Cape Town man admitted to Tygerberg Hospital.
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Strict protocols in place for administering of J&J vaccine - WC Health Dept
Through this platform, more than 32,000 health workers in South Africa had already been inoculated since the programme was launched a week ago.
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Life after 52 days in hospital: CT COVID survivor struggles with after-effects
Nceba Simayile (50) developed a severe form of the virus last year and four months later, he said even performing very basic tasks exhausted him.
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Tygerberg Hospital hails early planning for being able to cope with COVID-19
The tertiary hospital admitted its first coronavirus patient on 25 March. Almost a year later, more than 11,000 COVID-19 patients have been treated there.
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‘It's terrible to be out of breath’: Tygerberg nurse recalls COVID patient agony
Forty-nine-year-old Sister Cheryl Buys has spent the past 30 years nursing patients at the medical facility and now heads a ward dedicated to patients infected by the coronavirus.
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COVID-19 spike leaves undertakers battling with funeral backlog
Patrick Geva is an undertaker who works for Ntsika Burial Society in Khayelitsha. He said that funeral parlours were facing severe pressure to ensure those who passed on due to COVID-19 were buried in a timeous manner.
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DA to lay charges with Parly Ethics Committee over Mboweni's Tygerberg comment
The minister was speaking about support for new hospitals during his during his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, when he said that Tygerberg Hospital still had a black and white section and that structurally it was still there.
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Health MEC blasts Mboweni for Tygerberg Hospital 'racially segregated' claim
MEC Nomafrench Mbombo said Tygerberg Hospital and staff who work there served the whole community and province.
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Quintin the robot helping COVID-19 patients in ICU connect with loved ones
Receiving treatment in isolation is a lonely and fear-filled experience for most COVID-19 patients and 'Quintin' is doubling as a communication tool for family members to 'see' their relatives.
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How snorkel masks are saving doctors from COVID-19 at Tygerberg Hospital
The masks, which are usually used for snorkelling in tropical waters, cover the whole face and form a tight seal.
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Tygerberg Hospital staff use modified snorkeling masks to keep safe from COVID
One of the hospital's neonatologists Dr Lizelle van Wyk is an avid diver and was shown the mask by a diving colleague.
