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This is how hard a deadly bug has hit private hospitals

07 August 2019 - 07:00 By Belinda Pheto
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Drug-resistant fungal infections are said to be on the rise, particularly in private Gauteng hospitals.
Drug-resistant fungal infections are said to be on the rise, particularly in private Gauteng hospitals.
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Private hospitals in Gauteng are becoming deadly places amid the rapid spread of a drug-resistant fungus infecting ill and newborn babies in ICU wards.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has revealed that in 2016 and 2017 there were 695 candida auris infections in patients in private hospitals and 99 in the state hospitals.

 

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