Johannesburg - Neonatal wards in Gauteng are under severe pressure and unless effective action is taken to provide more beds and staff, there will continue to be a high number of avoidable baby deaths. Jack Bloom, the DA’s Gauteng Shadow Health MEC, said he remained concerned that effective action was not being taken against klebsiella-related deaths at other Gauteng hospitals.
Last November and December, 10 babies died following an outbreak of antibiotic resistant bacteria CRE at Tembisa Hospital. Health officials said the 44-bed neonatal unit often admitted close to 90 patients while understaffing and poor hygiene control were also blamed for the deadly outbreak. Six babies died of antibiotic-resistant klebsiella at the Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in 2018, but “it seems that lessons that should have been learnt there were not applied elsewhere”, said Bloom.
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