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Community needn't stay away from Potch hospital: CEO─── DANE BEISHEIM 11:23 Thu, 09 Oct 2014
Potchefstroom - 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.
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 said earlier the man does not have the Ebola virus.
North West health department spokesperson Tebogo Lekgethwane said earlier the man does not have the Ebola virus.
He says the department will none-the-less monitor everyone who has been in contact with the man.
Dane Beisheim, Christal-Lize Muller-OFM News
Dane Beisheim, Christal-Lize Muller-OFM News
Tebogo Lekgethwane:
