{"id":919157,"date":"2022-01-24T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/gift-of-the-givers-contribute-r5-million-for-catch-up-surgeries-to-groote-schuur-hospital\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:58:27","slug":"gift-of-the-givers-contribute-r5-million-for-catch-up-surgeries-to-groote-schuur-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/gift-of-the-givers-contribute-r5-million-for-catch-up-surgeries-to-groote-schuur-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift of the Givers contribute R5 million for catch up surgeries to Groote Schuur Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/resize\/650x366\/Gift-of-the-Givers-founder-Dr-Imtiaz-Sooliman-File-picture-Independent-Media?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/677f779f-6e76-5841-aae6-940f0c2fe45c&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x0&amp;resize=0x0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town &#8211;  Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers have once again stepped up to assist and announced a contribution of R5 million to Groote Schuur Hospital for catch-up surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>Gift of the Givers founder, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, said the hospital\u2019s new surgical head, Dr Lydia Cairncross will be supervising the catch-up of 1&nbsp;500 backlogged surgical procedures for various medical conditions which were delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cGift of the Givers has been making major interventions in the health sector including supporting 210 hospitals nationwide during Covid-19, providing personal protective equipment, scrubs, pulse oximeters, non-contact thermometers, video laryngoscopes, high-flow nasal oxygen machines, continuous positive airway pressure (CPap) machines, medicines, food for patients, motivational goody bags for health-care workers, paying for additional support staff, drilling boreholes and carrying out infrastructure upgrade,\u201d Sooliman said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that in the Western Cape, the Freesia Ward in Mitchells Plain received a R10m upgrade from the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Sooliman said they are still waiting on written confirmation from the Western Cape Health Department to start with upgrades at the Eerste River Hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe have begun support for cataract catch-up surgery at Eerste River Hospital and will continue for the rest of 2022,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>[email&nbsp;protected]<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-526d6c0256d3d82c644471a408c3818e\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town &#8211; Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers have once again stepped up to assist and announced a contribution of R5 million to Groote Schuur Hospital for catch-up surgeries. Gift of the Givers founder, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, said the hospital\u2019s new surgical head, Dr Lydia Cairncross will be supervising the catch-up of 1&nbsp;500 backlogged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}