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Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo at the newly renovated paediatric ICU at Tygerberg Hospital. Picture: French Mbombo/Facebook.

Tygerberg hospital

Medical experts hail refurbishment of paediatric ICU at Tygerberg Hospital

By Kevin Brandt

The public health sector has again benefitted from the Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust.

  • The Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust handed over customized units to Tygerberg Hospital's paediatrics ward on Monday, 8 August 2022. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN.

    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.

    6 days ago
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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. 

    73 days ago
  • Surgeons used the Tygerberg Hospital's new, state-of-the-art Da Vinci robot on cancer patients. Picture: Supplied.

    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.

    124 days ago
  • Surgeons used the Tygerberg Hospital's new, state-of-the-art Da Vinci robot on cancer patients. Picture: Supplied.

    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.

    172 days ago
  • Surgeons used the Tygerberg Hospital's new, state-of-the-art Da Vinci robot on cancer patients. Picture: Supplied.

    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.

    173 days ago
  • FILE: Doctor Usha Lalla, head of the hospital’s COVID-19 ICU, has urged South Africans to take the coronavirus vaccine shot and help bring an end to the devastation. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN

    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.

    338 days ago
  • FILE: Snorkel masks protect healthcare personnel at Tygerberg Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: Western Cape Government.

    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.

    339 days ago
  • The Western Cape Health Department is commemorating the one-year anniversary of the first reported case of COVID-19 in the province. On 11 March 2020, the province had its first COVID-19 case. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    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.

    521 days ago
  • FILE: Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo gets her COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Tygerberg Hospital on 23 February 2021. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News

    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.

    536 days 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.

    559 days ago
  • Tygerberg Hospital in Parow in the Western Cape. Picture: Supplied

    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.

    559 days ago
  • Sister Cheryl Buys. Picture: Supplied

    ‘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.

    583 days ago
  • Image of funeral undertakers during COVID-19. Picture: Twitter/@SAgovnews

    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.

    592 days ago
  • FILE: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his Medium-Term Budget Policy Speech in Parliament on 28 October 2020 in Cape Town. Picture: GCIS.

    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.

    654 days ago
  • Tygerberg Hospital. Picture: Western Cape Government

    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.

    654 days ago
  • 'Quinton' the robot is being used at the Tygerberg Hospital to reduce the risk of health workers being exposed to COVID-19. Picture: Supplied

    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.

    662 days ago
  • Medical staff across the country have been going to extra lengths to protect themselves against the virus. Picture: Supplied.

    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.

    719 days ago
  • Snorkel masks protect healthcare personnel at Tygerberg Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Image: Western Cape Government.

    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.

    720 days ago
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