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Biohazard alert for Eastern Cape: COVID-19 samples ‘stolen in hijacking’ – Port Elizabeth in the News

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Biohazard alert for Eastern Cape: COVID-19 samples ‘stolen in hijacking’: Just when things cannot get any more ridiculous, a crime like this is reported. Officials in Port Elizabeth have been left dumbfounded, after a large number of COVID-19 samples went missing during a …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Trailblazing PE doctor who tackled sensitive subject of circumcision dies: Trailblazing Port Elizabeth doctor Elizabeth-Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni has died. The 72-year-old succumbed on Wednesday night after a short stay at the Life St George’s Hospital, her daughter-in-law …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Not time to put EC health department under administration: Zweli Mkhize: Though the question of whether the Eastern Cape health department should be placed under administration has come up in parliament, health minister Zweli Mkhize says he is “not yet there”.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

The rugby morning headlines as more South African teams joining PRO14 ‘rests on one thing’ and boss speaks out: Here are your rugby headlines for Wednesday, July 22. SA Rugby chief Jurie Roux warns the game is facing big changes. South Africa Rugby CEO Jurie Roux has admitted he’s ‘a long w …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Teams in race against time to get oxygen to Eastern Cape hospitals: Planners, auditors, engineers, technicians and truck drivers are in a race against time to get enough oxygen to Eastern Cape’s hospitals to provide for Covid-19 patients as the province braces for a …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

More than 100 people to be retested after samples lost in PE truck hijacking: The bio-hazard samples went missing on Monday when two workers, from a courier company hired by the NHLS to collect samples from local clinics, were ambushed by two gunmen.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Mkhize: EC has over 3,500 hospital beds in operation, but more will be needed: Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize during a walkabout at the Dora Ngiza Hospital in Port Elizabeth on 23 July 2020. Picture: @DrZweliMkhize/Twitter JOHANNESBURG – Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Community bids farewell to boxing doyen Tennyson Mackay: Port Elizabeth’s sporting community has paid tribute to another fallen hero following the death of boxing doyen Tennyson Mackay, aged 94, on Wednesday. ..
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Trailblazing PE doctor who tackled verboten subject of circumcision dies: Trailblazing Port Elizabeth doctor Elizabeth-Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni has died. The 72-year-old succumbed on Wednesday night after a short stay at the Life St George’s Hospital, her daughter-in-law …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

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