Ekurhuleni health practitioners have noted with concern an increasing number of patients visiting the City’s health facilities requesting sick notes.
Germiston – The City of Ekurhuleni urges residents to take extra precautionary measures and maintain proper hand-hygiene as the country experiences an outbreak of Diarrhoeal disease, and a rising number of confirmed cases of Cholera. This has been sparked by the outbreak in neighbouring Hammanskraal that has claimed 12 lives and over 50 people receiving […]
The City of Ekurhuleni will join the world tomorrow, 12 May, in celebrating International Nurses Day at the Alberton Council Chamber under the theme: Our Nurses Our Future. Healthcare workers will converge to celebrate the nursing profession and have a prayer session to pay tribute to the nurses who succumbed to the Covid-19 pandemic while […]
GERMISTON – The City has managed to vaccinate 526 000 youngsters for measles since the beginning of the year. The vaccination campaign was introduced because of the threat of measles to young people in the province. The programme, which continues to this day, is targeting young people between six months and 15 years. “Our target […]
Ekurhuleni’s health practitioners are crisscrossing the City educating communities about cholera prevention, treatment, and care. As part of the campaign, on Friday, 10 March, a team visited the Germiston Clinic to explain cholera, its side effects, symptoms and how it can be prevented. Patients visiting the facility got to learn about the importance of hygiene, […]
The City strongly condemns the burglary of the Villa Liza Clinic. The facility was broken into on Wednesday night and 22 computers, two monitors and kitchen appliances were among the items stolen. Discovered the following morning, the burglary forced the facility to close to the public on Thursday, 2 March, but reopened on Friday. “This […]
The City of Ekurhuleni is on high alert following the deaths of two people in the Emandleni informal settlement of Cholera recently. The first victim passed on the 8th of February and her 22-year-old son, who had been admitted to the O.R. Tambo Hospital, died 11 days later. A third case was confirmed Monday morning, […]
The City of Ekurhuleni’s measles campaign is gaining momentum with almost 300 000 children already vaccinated. The outreach program is now moving with speed to secluded areas as the City pursues the one million target. The City will be relying on its mobile clinics to reach as many children in the far-flung areas in an […]
The City of Ekurhuleni appeals to parents of children between the ages of six months to 15 years old to give consent for immunization to help curb the spread of measles. The Gauteng Department of Health aims to immunize four million children by the end of March 2023. Currently, over 120 000 children have been […]
The City of Ekurhuleni is accelerating vaccination of children against Measles following detection of 16 confirmed Measles cases since the start of the year in the region. Measles is a highly contagious disease that spreads through infectious airborne respiratory droplets from an infected person when coughing or sneezing. The first Measles cases in Gauteng were […]
