Industry News – National Hospital Network

How private hospitals are using lessons learnt from Covid-19 to become ‘obsessive infection control bubbles’

Private hospitals have tightened their Covid-19 protocols, which include screening and physical distancing to ensure the safety of patients. Patients returning to private hospitals for treatment will find themselves in an “obsessive infection control bubble” environment intended to keep them safer from Covid-19 than virtually anywhere else, said Dr Charl Loggerenberg, general manager of Emergency […]

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NHN’s Neil Nair: ‘Staff welfare first, hospital industry equity paramount!’

The National Hospital Network (NHN), founded in 1996 with the prime objective of bringing together leading independently owned private hospitals, now comprises 230 establishments – the emergence of many of which can be traced back to the apartheid spatial planning which denied adequate hospital infrastructure in disadvantaged areas. Heading up the organisation as CEO since

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Local doctors and engineers build makeshift emergency ventilator using everyday items

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A Krugersdorp-based doctor employed a little help from his friends to come up with an innovative design to simplify access to ventilation in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jano de Beer, a medical practitioner, with the expert assistance of anaesthetist Estienne Neuhoff and electronic engineers Gerry Geel and Maritz Botha, are well on their way

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Melomed doing compulsory Covid-19 testing for all new admissions

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The Melomed Hospitals group is testing all its new admissions for Covid-19 regardless of the reason why people are admitted, to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, the group said on Monday. “Melomed Hospitals’ strict clinical processes requires that all patients admitted into the Melomed Hospitals as ‘in-patients’ are to be tested for Covid-19,”

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Durban mother and newborn who tested positive for Covid-19 are recovering at home

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Durban – A mother and newborn baby who both tested positive for Covid-19 at Durban’s Ahmed Al Kadi are recovering and have been discharged from the hospital. According to AAK chairperson, Dr Ayob Moosa Bux, both are back home. He said the woman was admitted to the facility and was tested upon arrival. In an

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