Eldorado Park clinic closed after nurse tests positive for Covid-19

This is according to the Johannesburg health department, which said the facility had been closed and all staff had been told to self-isolate.

“All possible patients who came into contact with the nurse will be traced and tested,” said spokesperson Rich Hlatshwayo.“The city would like to assure the public that all measures will be taken to safeguard the health of staff and that of our patients. The facility will be sanitised and all other safety measures implemented before it is opened.

The closure of the clinic comes after Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, also in Soweto, had to be cleared and disinfected after a Covid-19 case on Tuesday. “Due to the pandemic other wards within the unit had to be dedicated to admit pregnant women who are under investigation for Covid-19 while others are dedicated for confirmed Covid-19 patients. This has reduced the capacity of the general unit beds leading to delays in the allocation of beds for those patients who are admitted electively,” said Kwara Kekana, spokesperson for the department of health.

She added that protocols remained in place. “On the night the positive case was confirmed, there were 41 babies delivered, 19 were through C-sections and 22 were normal vertex deliveries. The obstetrics protocols remain in place.”

The negligence that we have seen is intolerable. Essential services were not vaccinated amid Covid 19. The pandemic drill of mandatory flu vaccination and compulsory malaria vaccination programs were not implemented in the country.

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