Ventilators

A combination of failures by the municipal, provincial and national government left a hospital in the south of Johannesburg without water and electricity for parts of November

The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen…

The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and James Oatway visited George Mukhari academic hospital to document the second-wave realities experienced by doctors and nurses

If successful, it will then have to be manufactured and distributed

The astronomical centre will oversee the production of cheaper and less invasive devices than ventilators to treat Covid-19 patients

Governments need to provide the modelling and data informing the strategy to control the spread of the novel coronavirus

A special steering committee seeks to fill urgent gaps in the system in order to fight the coronavirus

About 20 people in South Africa die each day from the coronavirus, and this number may peak at 300, while positive cases may reach 8 000 a day, according to some projections

Will it be assumed that those with disabilities do not deserve life-saving care?

These institutions are a crucial part of the research and development process that underpins South Africa’s life-and-death fight against the Covid-19 outbreak

These restrictions must be overturned or ignored because they are limiting the production and importing of essential medical equipment such as ventilators