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A private hospital has established a 10-bed waiting area in the covered parking lot to serve an increasing number of people seeking medical care in Pretoria.
Life Eugene Marais Hospital has strengthened its capacity in an attempt to limit any delays in treating patients who arrive at its emergency unit.
Life Health Care Regional Manager Johan Holder explained that the waiting area was established to provide patients with the care they needed until they could be housed within the hospital or transferred to a suitable facility.
Holder said that like most health care facilities in Tshwane, Life Eugene Marais Hospital took the move to respond to increased pressure to treat patients.
“Human resources and equipment are under pressure and there are limitations on the number of patients that can be housed in our hospital,” he said. To further increase capacity, Holder said elective surgery had been stopped and additional units had been opened to care for Covid-19 patients.
Holder said that Covid-19 patients had increased since the beginning of December. “With the second increase, we are seeing a significant increase in Covid-19 admissions; however, we continue to see patients requiring medical treatment outside of Covid-19 related care. ”
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