14.8.2014 03.02 pm
There is a suspected case of Ebola at the Rahima Moosa Hospital, west of Johannesburg, DA Gauteng health spokesperson Jack Bloom claimed on Thursday.
Bloom claimed he had received information regarding a possible case at the hospital.
“The patient is from Guinea and is presently being kept in isolation. If it is a confirmed Ebola case then the patient will be transferred to the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital which has been designated to treat Ebola with all due safeguards,” he said.
The national health department could not immediately confirm this to be true and health spokesperson Joe Maila said he would comment at a later stage.
“This is a serious situation. The Gauteng Health Department must provide full information to allay public fears, and tracing must be done to find any people who were in close contact with this particular patient,” said Bloom....
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There is a suspected case of Ebola at the Rahima Moosa Hospital, west of Johannesburg, DA Gauteng health spokesperson Jack Bloom claimed on Thursday.
Bloom claimed he had received information regarding a possible case at the hospital.
“The patient is from Guinea and is presently being kept in isolation. If it is a confirmed Ebola case then the patient will be transferred to the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital which has been designated to treat Ebola with all due safeguards,” he said.
The national health department could not immediately confirm this to be true and health spokesperson Joe Maila said he would comment at a later stage.
“This is a serious situation. The Gauteng Health Department must provide full information to allay public fears, and tracing must be done to find any people who were in close contact with this particular patient,” said Bloom....
http://citizen.co.za/228640/first-su...-johannesburg/