Cape Town – Scenes of joy and jubilation filled the halls of Groote Schuur Hospital as one of the Covid-19 patients hospitalised the longest in the province, Zuliswa Maqana, was discharged after almost three months.
Maqana was admitted to the Mitchells Plain District Hospital on May 4 with severe Covid-19-related pneumonia and quickly transferred to Groote Schuur the next day as she required intensive care. “Eventually, she left ICU on June 28 and arrived in ward F5. She could hardly talk or walk on arrival in the ward, but slowly grew stronger as she was rehabilitated by physiotherapy and nursing.
Having also lost her husband in 2017, it was special for hospital staff to celebrate with the children that their mother had recovered well, Maqana said, thanking those who looked after her on her journey to recovery.“I am so happy with the treatment I got at Groote Schuur. I didn’t know what day it was when I entered the hospital and I couldn’t move for weeks. But the hospital staff helped me learn to walk again and they were all so happy for me when I could go home,” Maqana said.
But on June 2, Huis Nuweland staff alerted the family to Newman’s coughing and on the doctor’s advice, conducted a Covid-19 test. The results came back positive.
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