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Nearly 7 500 patients picked up an infection inThis was revealed by
and Wellness MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko in a written reply to Democratic Alliances shadow MEC for health Jack Bloom in the Gauteng Legislature. The technical name for hospital-acquired infections is nosocomial, which refers to infections caught inBloom said Nkomo-Ralehoko indicated there are weekly and monthly Healthcare Associated Infection surveillance records, but no data was collected for 2020 and 2021 in“In 2022, 7 457 of 116 366 patients got nosocomial infections of which 5032 were in the seven central and tertiary hospitals.
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