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TimesLIVE reports that the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) health department has given St Augustine's hospital a week to move dialysis patients out of its centre after several patients there tested positive for Covid-19.
The centre, which is housed in a building separate from the main hospital, was allowed to continue operating because of a shortage of dialysis centres. This came amid a directive from the provincial department to shut down St Augustine's after 66 people there tested positive for the coronavirus. “As of Wednesday, we were informed that about seven patients in that facility had been found to be positive. We are now faced with a situation where we have to instruct, and have indicated to St Augustine's, that they must find alternative centres for these patients to receive dialysis,” KZN health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu indicated. She said the hospital had assured them it was not possible for the virus to move into the dialysis centre because the affected health-care workers worked only in the main hospital. The MEC said they had given the hospital a week to get its house in order because of the risks of abruptly stopping dialysis.
- Read the full original of the detailed report in the above regard by Lwandile Bhengu at TimesLIVE
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