Tygerberg hospital
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.
The Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust handed over customized units to the facility’s paediatrics ward on Monday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As fake news and misunderstood science drives vaccine hesitancy and even denialism, Cape Town doctors have been speaking out, urging people to get vaccinated.
On 11 March 2020, the Western Cape had its first COVID-19 case, a Cape Town man admitted to Tygerberg Hospital.
Through this platform, more than 32,000 health workers in South Africa had already been inoculated since the programme was launched a week ago.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MEC Nomafrench Mbombo said Tygerberg Hospital and staff who work there served the whole community and province.
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.
The masks, which are usually used for snorkelling in tropical waters, cover the whole face and form a tight seal.
One of the hospital's neonatologists Dr Lizelle van Wyk is an avid diver and was shown the mask by a diving colleague.