At a ceremony at the hospital on Saturday, US Ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks said South Africa was the first country to receive ventilator donations from the United States Agency for International Development.
The first 20 ventilators which will form part of a total donation of 1 000 ventilators from the US government, have been installed at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto.
She added that not only were the ventilators a gift to the people of South Africa, but also to healthcare workers responding to the global pandemic. Currently, the hospital has just over 200 beds dedicated to the Covid-19 response, Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku said, with cases being handled in the obstetrics wards.
He added that 12 babies had been born to Covid-19-positive mothers and there was one fatality among them.For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for
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