Hospitals

People who are over the age of 50, obese or living with diabetes or high blood pressure are more likely to die from Covid-19 than those who are younger or without these conditions.One out of five registered nurses and midwives in South Africa, as of 2017, was over the age of 60.A national health department…

The construction of 4 000-bed field hospitals in the Eastern Cape is expected to ease the burden on strained provincial hospitals.Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) said three doctors, two cleaners and 30 nurses tested positive at Humansdorp Hospital.On Tuesday, Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane will open phase one of a R107 million field hospital…

June 21, 2020Updated 6:22 p.m. ETNEW DELHI — Neelam Kumari Gautam woke up at 5 a.m. with shooting labor pains. Her husband put her gently in the back of a rickshaw and motored with her to a hospital. Then another. Then another. Her pain was so intense she could barely breathe, but none would take…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With new cases skyrocketing and hospitalizations increasing, Florida hospitals are confronting a scary new trend: people entering hospitals without the symptoms of coronavirus they were showing a few months ago. The fever check, a basic tool for screening for coronavirus, likely is not much value anymore, as the number of asymptomatic…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several U.S. hospitals in states with fresh surges of COVID-19 cases have started treating their sickest patients with dexamethasone rather than await confirmation of preliminary results of a study by British researchers, who said the inexpensive steroid saves lives. FILE PHOTO: An ampoule of Dexamethasone is seen during the coronavirus disease…