A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presented a huge challenge to the health systems across the world. When the virus hit South Africa, and the state of national disaster was announced by the president, the healthcare system had to work on its COVID-19 response preparedness. Ini...

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Autores principales: Govender, Indiran, Masilo, Keorapetse A.O., Maphasha, Olga M., Matjila, Sello
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2020
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Scientific Letters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33314945
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v62i1.5196
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author Govender, Indiran
Masilo, Keorapetse A.O.
Maphasha, Olga M.
Matjila, Sello
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description The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presented a huge challenge to the health systems across the world. When the virus hit South Africa, and the state of national disaster was announced by the president, the healthcare system had to work on its COVID-19 response preparedness. Initially, a few hospitals were then designated facilities for managing COVID-19 patients. Kalafong Hospital, which was not amongst a list of designated facilities for COVID-19 was forced to evaluate its level of preparedness after an intern doctor tested positive. The objectives of this report are to illustrate the hospital’s response around the management of the index case to share our facility’s general response to the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-83778032021-09-03 A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa Govender, Indiran Masilo, Keorapetse A.O. Maphasha, Olga M. Matjila, Sello S Afr Fam Pract (2004) Scientific Letters The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presented a huge challenge to the health systems across the world. When the virus hit South Africa, and the state of national disaster was announced by the president, the healthcare system had to work on its COVID-19 response preparedness. Initially, a few hospitals were then designated facilities for managing COVID-19 patients. Kalafong Hospital, which was not amongst a list of designated facilities for COVID-19 was forced to evaluate its level of preparedness after an intern doctor tested positive. The objectives of this report are to illustrate the hospital’s response around the management of the index case to share our facility’s general response to the pandemic. AOSIS 2020-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8377803/ /pubmed/33314945 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v62i1.5196 Text en © 2020. The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
spellingShingle Scientific Letters
Govender, Indiran
Masilo, Keorapetse A.O.
Maphasha, Olga M.
Matjila, Sello
A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
title A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
title_full A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
title_fullStr A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
title_full_unstemmed A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
title_short A description of events surrounding the index COVID-19 diagnosis in a staff member at Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
title_sort description of events surrounding the index covid-19 diagnosis in a staff member at kalafong provincial tertiary hospital in gauteng, south africa
topic Scientific Letters
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33314945
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v62i1.5196
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