Services restored at Leratong Hospital after overnight floods Citizen reporter
Services have been restored at Leratong Hospital, after overnight floods affected various sections of the building. Image: Twitter/@WestRandHealth All frontline areas, the emergency casualty area and X-ray departments were all affected, as well as patient records and all wards on the ground floor of the hospital.
Various setions of Leratong Hospital were adversely affected by floods from late on Friday night and into the early hours of Saturday morning.
All frontline areas, the emergency casualty area and X-ray departments were all affected, as well as patient records and all wards on the ground floor of the hospital, said CEO Dr Keke Moloi.
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Gauteng welcomes 225 New Year’s Day babies Citizen reporter
Gauteng health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi
with the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital team to welcome New Year’s Day babies. Picture: Twitter/ @GautengHealth Elsewhere in the country, KwaZulu-Natal recorded 47 New Year’s Day babies, with 22 boys and 25 girls born.
South Africa’s most populous province has a few new additions on New Year’s Day, after the Gauteng health department revealed that 225 babies were born (between 12am and 12pm) in the province’s hospitals and community healthcare centres.
Of the 225 babies born, 121 were boys and 104 were girls. The majority of the births happened at Tembisa Hospital, with 22 births recorded.
President Ramaphosa hopeful of Covid-19 vaccine in early 2021
President Cyril Ramaphosa. Image courtesy of GCIS
South Africa is set to receive initial Covid-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility to cover 10% of its population in the early part of 2021, says Ramaphosa.
As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the country, South Africa is set to receive a vaccine for the novel coronavirus by early next year. Still, the first round will only be enough to cover around ten percent of the population.
That is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was addressing the nation as part of a Covid-19 update.
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