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File image GEORGE NEWS - Mediclinic George could report today, Friday 26 February, that there are no Covid-19 patients in the hospital. We admitted the last seriously ill Covid patient on 25 January, but apart from him we have had to treat only milder cases. We are all relieved that we are over the second wave, but wish to urge everyone not to slacken adherence to the necessary hygiene measures and to wear their masks, said the manager, Kassie Karstens. Visiting hours to the hospital have been extended and are now 10:00-12:00 and 15:00-20:00. As at 23 February, the Garden Route had 22 hospitalised Covid-19 patients in private and public hospitals, which is the lowest since early November last year, according to the head of the district s disaster management section, Gerhard Otto. ....
Cape Town, help us help you - Dr on Covid-19 frontline pens heartfelt plea 23 December 2020 8:31 AM Share This: Dr Andrea Mendelsohn says the current second wave of infections is creating a nightmare for healthworkers in Cape Town. A Cape Town community health doctor has penned a moving open letter to Cape Town residents pleading with them to help support health workers at the coalface of the coronavirus pandemic. In the letter, Dr Andrea Mendelsohn shares the challenges she and her colleagues are facing during the current second wave. A tidal wave is enveloping Cape Town she writes. Mendelsohn is a senior medical officer and a public health facility in the Southern Suburbs, she joined CapeTalk s John Maytham on Wednesday to share some of the challenges she and her colleagues are facing. ....