The Western Cape Health Minister, Theuns
Botha, on Thursday announced an innovative intervention to address the problem
of long waiting lists for hip- and knee replacements.
This system, which is based on an
electronic central platform, will link all facilities in the province where
elective joint surgery takes place.
Ministerial Spokesperson Helene Rossouw
said 300 surgeries will be done in the next year and electronic data base has
been created for people who are need of urgent surgery.
Rossouw added that these people will be
people who have with no mobility, people who are in wheelchairs or have
crutches, unable to work and in need of help in eating, people who are really
urgent need of surgery.
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