DANE BEISHEIM AND CHRISTAL-LIZE MULLER
Management at Potchefstroom Hospital says patients visiting the facility needn’t worry about contracting infectious diseases.
This after the hospital was placed under quarantine overnight after a 72-year old man was admitted with signs of haemorrhagic
fever.
The man has since been transferred to the Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital complex for further treatment, and the quarantine placed on the hospital’s casualty ward, lifted. Potchefstroom Hospital CEO Gloria Thlapi says patients shouldn’t be wary of visiting the facility.
North West health department spokesperson Tebogo Lekgethwane earlier allayed fears that the man may have Ebola. He says the man has not travelled outside of South Africa, but says the department will monitor everyone who has been in contact with him.
