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Ray Hartle NEWS First Published Sunday, June 18 2023 in: Twenty-seven-year-old East London teacher Zimbini* was very excited when she fell pregnant in 2022 and looked forward to the birth of her son. “Part of me wanted to be pregnant
It’s fair to say that, given the option or having the resources to check themselves in, most South Africans may prefer being admitted for treatment in a private hospital rather than a State facility. In the 50th anniversary of South
By the backpacks filled with kid’s stuff, the annual cardiac check-up for the Bennet family from East London seems like just another casual fun day out. It’s anything but. Mikenza, 7, and Kellan, 4, both suffer from congenital heart disease,
Noxolo Ntshintshi rattles off a slew of heart conditions – coarctation of the aorta, transposition of the great arteries, single ventricular defect, ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, hypertrophy of the right ventricle – she had to come to grips with
Until recently, the Eastern Cape had only one full-time cardiologist in the public sector, based at Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital. That post will be vacant soon as the incumbent, Dr Basil Brown, retires at the end of this year and
The unique collaboration between Cape Town’s Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCCH) and two government hospitals in the Eastern Cape has a long history. For many decades, and certainly since long before democracy, specialist physicians and surgeons from
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