Ventilators
Made in SA: Non-invasive ventilators a huge boon for COVID health workers
Last month, Garden Route officials requested support from the SANDF because the virus cut a swathe through law enforcement officials in the area.
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Solidarity Fund to donate 20,000 ventilators to healthcare facilities across SA
These will come in handy as the country prepares for the second COVID-19 wave over the next few months.
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COVID-19: SA ‘unlikely’ to experience ventilator shortage
This is the update Parliament's trade, industry and competition committee has received from the department this week.
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Nigeria receives ventilators promised by Trump in April
"The items were received by the minister of health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, from the US ambassador to Nigeria, Ms. Mary Leonard, in Abuja yesterday," a senior official in the minister's office told AFP.
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WC hospitals using less oxygen as number of COVID-19 patients decreases
Almost 1,500 COVID-19 patients are currently being treated in hospital and 273 of them are in ICU or high care.
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Mkhize: Govt working with ventilator companies to increase production
The Health Minister visited the Dr George Mukhari Hospital in Pretoria with Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku to assess its state of readiness to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CSIR set to rollout 10k locally produced ventilators
In collaboration with local partners, CSIR engineers developed these devices as part of government's national ventilator project.
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'Covid-19 is vascular disease – not respiratory one. Taking aspirin makes sense'
Dr Jaco Laubscher (a physician specialising in vascular biology) shares findings that may revolutionise how we treat Covid-19.
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Gauteng to receive ventilators donated by US government
The ventilators will be installed at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, which is one the designated facility's for managing COVID-19 cases in the country.
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DTI expects local production of ventilators to start soon
The ventilator project is one government's interventions aimed at meeting the health system's needs and opening up new economic opportunities.
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WC looks to ramp up ventilators, ICU spaces ahead of expected virus spread
In the Western Cape, around 850 ICU beds in the private and public sector will be available for COVID-19 patients, but Premier Alan Winde has repeatedly said there won't be enough ICU beds at the peak.
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ANALYSIS: Tough choices on who gets ICU access: the ethical principles in SA
For a population of around 59 million, the country has limited intensive care unit beds and ventilators. And supplies of personal protective equipment for health workers are sub-optimal
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Denel, CSIR, Armscor, Eskom join forces to produce COVID-19 ventilator
There’s a desperate need for more of these medical devices globally as a result of COVID-19 patients with respiratory difficulty requiring critical care in hospital.
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COVID-19:Denel among SOEs lending expertise towards SA production of ventilators
Denel has responded to a call from the Department of Public Enterprises to drive the ventilator project, in preparation for a possible surge in the number of hospitalised patients requiring this specialised piece of equipment.
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WHO checking how many ventilators each African countries has to respond to virus
Of the more than 4,000 cases have been reported in sub-Saharan Africa and 125 people have died.
