WATCH: KZN Health MEC announces closure of St Augustine's Hospital | TheMercurySA Day13ofLockdown
Durban - MEC for Health in KwaZulu-Natal, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu announced that St Augustine's Hospital has been closed down and only one ward remains open where positive patients are being treated.
"We have closed down the hospital but this was done in phases. Firstly, we instructed that as of Wednesday last week, the hospital should not take any more patients. However, before we started discharging or transferring patients, we tested all the patients. With the treatment and results, we have been able to discharge patients, not infected with Covid-19, to other facilities," she said.
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