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The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department (KZN) says they have made the necessary but difficult decision to stop new admissions at the Gizenga Memorial General Hospital of Justice (formerly Stanger Hospital) in KwaDukuza after 16 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the installations.
The department said nine mothers, two babies, four doctors and a nurse tested positive for the coronavirus.
“What is of particular concern to us is the fact that these infections have occurred despite the hospital’s infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, as well as the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) that has been made available staff, ”the department said.
She is aware that the first known Covid-19 case involves a mother who reportedly did not reveal that her husband was one of the positive cases related to a supermarket chain in Ballito.
“She was housed in a guest’s mothers’ hostel at the hospital, where other mothers soon tested positive.”
Experts in Communicable Disease Control and IPC have launched an investigation, which will look at how the virus was able to spread at such a rapid rate within the hospital.
The hospital, with 219 patients, became a quarantine site. All staff and patients in the operating room and ICU have been evaluated, the department added.
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