By Kamini Padayachee, Mpume Madlala, Lauren Rawlins and Bongani Hans –
Durban – A suspected Ebola case had Addington Hospital on red alert on Wednesday as staff scrambled into protective gear and closed off entrances and wards to ready the facility to treat the incoming patient.
On Wednesday night KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo confirmed that a patient had been brought to the hospital to be tested for the virus.
When asked if a blood sample had been taken because there was a suspicion of Ebola, Dhlomo would only say: “Yebo.” If it was confirmed as Ebola he would send a report to the national minister of health.
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