One of the Western Cape’s Covid-19 patients who was hospitalised the longest danced out of Groote Schuur Hospital this week – 77 days after she was admitted.
“I didn’t know what day it was [when I entered the hospital] and I couldn’t move for weeks. But they helped me learn to walk again after 77 days. And they were all so happy for me when I could go home,” Maqana said. Maqana had severe Covid-19 pneumonia when she was admitted to Mitchells Plain District Hospital on 4 May. She was transferred to Groote Schuur Hospital a day later.
General surgeon Dr Henri Pickardt said it was a “rocky course” for Maqana in ICU because she experienced complications and other infections along the way.
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