Two people have been admitted to Life Chatsmed Gardens Hospital for Covid-19 infections and are in isolation, the hospital confirmed on Friday.
The hospital, located in Chatsworth, outside Durban, is the third private facility known to have Covid-19 cases.
The Netcare Kingsway Hospital in Amanzimtoti has six confirmed cases affecting medical staff. The Netcare Saint Augustine’s hospital has a total of 66 cases, including staff and patients. The latter has also registered five deaths.
Dr Charl van Loggerenberg, General Manager for Emergency Medicine at Life Healthcare said: “The Department of Health is currently doing Covid-19 audits at state and private hospitals. We are fully supportive of these and have already had visits by government officials to some of our hospitals.”
Growing number
“Over the past months, Life Healthcare has been working hard to prepare for an anticipated surge in Covid-19 patients. Currently, we are seeing a growing number of Covid-19 patients admitted throughout our healthcare facilities nationally; however, none of our hospitals are at or over capacity at this point in time.”, Van Loggerenberg said they were ensuring they mitigated the risk to hospital staff.
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