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	kaisernetwork.org
		Hospital statistics show that when 43 patients are admitted per day, an average of 8% die during their stays, but when 120 patients are admitted more than 10% die.
		Hospital staff say that the problem is as much the result of "poor government policy toward AIDS as it is by the disease itself," criticizing the government for stalling on providing antiretroviral drugs to patients as other African nations construct plans to distribute the medicines.
		Following a "desperate" letter sent by Huddle to the hospital's CEO last month, the heads of Johannesburg's three major hospitals met to plan a strategy in response to the "swelling avalanche" of AIDS patients at their sites and this week met with Laetitia Rispel, head of the health department of Gauteng Province.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /Daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=6427&dr_cat=1 (268 words)

	WLA \| News
		As a protector of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Dr. Mandela said he was happy to accept the donation on its behalf.
		Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, the largest hospital in the world, is situated to the south west of Johannesburg, on the southern border of Soweto.
		Baragwanath is a training hospital for nurses, with a nurses training college on the premises.
	www.world-lotteries.org /news/wla_news_1.php?news_id=1994 (666 words)

	AEGiS-Reuters: Slow Start for S.Africa AIDS Drugs Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Baragwanath joined four other hospitals in Gauteng province launching ARV treatment on Thursday, opening a new front in the battle against an epidemic which infects one out of every 11 South Africans and kills some 600 each day.
		Gauteng Premier Sam Shilowa, touring the hospitals on Thursday, said the treatment plan was on track and angrily dismissed opposition suggestions it was a ploy to win votes ahead of general elections on April 14.
		Baragwanath, which serves a community of more than three million people in the sprawling township of Soweto, was only ready to enroll 20 people on the drugs on Thursday and officials said they would be careful about ramping up the program too quickly.
	www.aegis.com /news/re/2004/RE040401.html (822 words)

	Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
		The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital children's Christmas Party is an annual event catering for about 700 inpatients who need donations either monetary in the form of food and gifts.
		Be prepared to meet the health facility serving the Community of Soweto, and its surrounding areas.
		Meet the management; see how the hospital is funded, managed and share in our frustrations and triumphs.
	www.chrishanibaragwanathhospital.co.za /bara/index.jsp (225 words)

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		The hospital is the largest south of the equator.
		The hospital was originally used as a TB hospital for troops during the second world war.
		The doctor in charge of the hospital was Dr Frack, who at the time of Sharpeville had condemned the 'dum dum' bullets used, and as a result had been threatened with arrest by the authorities, until the whole staff had threatened to resign.
	members.lycos.co.uk /peggiepreston2/safrica_1961.htm (811 words)

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		The hospital was established in 1942, when the British built it as a rehabilitation hospital for servicemen.
		The land, on which the hospital was built, was owned by a Cornishman by the name of John Baragwanath, after whom the hospital was named.
		Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is dedicated to building long-term relationships with our community through the provision of services perceived by both the community and health providers to be ‘high quality”.
	www.safhe.co.za /secure/bienn_conf_suncity/george-veliotes.doc (1020 words)

	:: CASH BOOST FOR CHRIS HANI BARAGWANATH :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The hospital was named after Cornish immigrant John Albert Baragwanath, who set up a refreshment post on the Witwatersrand goldfields close to where the new hospital was to be established.
		In 1997, the hospital was renamed Chris Hani Baragwanath in honour of the late Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and of the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, who was gunned down in 1993.
		Currently the hospital, which was allocated a budget of R766 995 823, for the 2001/2002 period, is providing health needs not only to the residents of Soweto but also acts as a referral hospital for the whole country as well as neighbouring countries.
	www.joburg.org.za /aug_2002/ward.stm (851 words)

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		He used the opportunity to indicate the post war plan, which was that the Government would use the hospital for the Black population of the Witwatersrand.
		In the meantime Baragwanath was called on to deal with casualties of the war, mainly from the Middle East command.
		It is therefore not surprising that Baragwanath Hospital was an important venue for the Royal visit in 1947.
	homepages.tesco.net /~roger.vaughan/arnott/album.htm (670 words)

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		The government project will begin in 18 major hospitals and their feeder clinics and will extend to more hospitals during the year.
		Hospitals that have long been giving antiretrovirals to prevent mother- to-child transmission " King Edward hospital in Durban and Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Johannesburg " provided their protocols to the health department, and are partnering with other hospitals to help staff implement the programme correctly.
		Hospitals where the project will be implemented include: l Gauteng: Kalafong hospital, Natalspruit hospital.
	www.1worldcommunication.org /antiretroviralsprogramme.htm (504 words)

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		An MTCT prevention programme was available at the Leratong, Carletonville, Coronation and Johannesburg Hospitals by 17 October 2001 and was due to be available in November 2001 at the Sebokeng Hospital and the Garankuwa Hospital by February 2002.
		On behalf of the Gauteng Provinc, ms Rispel explained that a HIV research unit was established at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in 1998.
		Dr A H Grant, the Acting Medical Superintendent of the Bethesda Hospital at Ubombo in KwaZulu Natal, expressed the opinion that his hospital is in a position to implement a programme for the administering of Nevirapine.
	www.tac.org.za /Documents/MTCTCourtCase/mtctjudgement.txt (13342 words)

	:: BARA HOSPITAL PROVIDES A HELPING HAND :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Soweto is a city of contrasts: luxurious mansions across the road from tin shanties, green fields and streams around the corner from piles of garbage, BMWs with a single passenger parked at traffic lights alongside battered mini taxies jam-packed with passengers, and a friendliness and cheerfulness that disguises a high unemployment rate.
		A self-help organisation based at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto is providing hope and support for children with mental disabilities - and their families.
		In 1976, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital became the first in the country to replant an amputated hand, while in 1977 it saw the first transplant of a big toe to replace a missing thumb, creating a functional hand.
	www.joburg.org.za /2005/feb/feb7_bara.stm (1010 words)

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		Early in 2001 I learnt that Chris Hani Baragwanath was providing NVP for pregnant mothers who are HIV positive through the AIDS Care Counselling Training (ACCT) based at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
		She visited Baragwanath hospital where the people were helpful and friendly.
		When I raised this case with the hospital I was told that it is not my department, because I am a nurse not a senior sister.
	web.uct.ac.za /org/tac/ccmvmate.txt (896 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news New ER for Baragwanath hospital
		The Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital is to get a new casualty complex as part of a programme to revitalise hospital facilities in South Africa, the hospital said in a statement on Friday.
		The revamp began with the commissioning of the new renal unit in 2003, after the Gauteng health department chose Chris Hani-Baragwanath as one of the institutions for the revitalisation programme.
		The hospital has refurbished vacant buildings to provide temporary accommodation to the services while the new facilities are being built.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/312301.htm (145 words)

	James McIntyre, MD - International Representative - South Africa
		01.01.82 - 31.12.82 Registrar, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Harare Hospital, Harare.
		Baragwanath Hospital is the major referral hospital for the estimated three million population of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
		The Baragwanath Perinatal HIV Research Unit is a joint Research Unit of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Paediatrics of the University of the Witwatersrand at Baragwanath.
	www.obgyn.net /country/i-bios/mcintyre.htm (3955 words)

	iafrica.com \| aidswise \| news 'Don't let our patients die'
		A doctor and three senior nurses from Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital, as well as two Aids activists, symbolically tied themselves together with a rope in front of the national health department's head office in Pretoria on Wednesday.
		Bokaba, along with Dr Natalya Dinat of the perinatal HIV research unit at the hospital, and the Treatment Action Campaign's (TAC's) Gauteng co-ordinator, Phologolo Ramothwala, then went to meet health director-general Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba and hand a petition to him.
		Dinat said 89 percent of the health care workers at the hospital signed the petition, calling on the state "to work with us in building a health care system that meets the needs of South Africa's people".
	iafrica.com /aidswise/news/258484.htm (569 words)

	Urology Consultants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mohamed Haffejee (Head, Division of Urology); Gregory Basiewicz (Head, Division of Urology, Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital); J Glocer, (Head of Division of Urology, Helen Joseph Hospital); Steven Kamba and Lybon Rikhotso.
		Jeffrey Glocer is Head of the Division of Urology at the Helen Joseph Hospital in a part-time capacity.
		Irv Lissoos is a senior part-time consultant urologist at the Helen Joseph Hospital and is involved in registrar training.
	www.health.wits.ac.za /urology/urostaff.htm (669 words)

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		Visit to Baragwanath Hospital by Children of Fire on January 6th 1999 Tristan, Thobe, Thabang and Bronwen.
		Said that the hospital had treated a case a bit like Dorah.
		There will be displayed in the hospital (bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, I commented) and in clinics (which is more worthwhile I reckon.
	members.lycos.co.uk /children_of_fire/hospital.htm (498 words)

	Atrium Ziekenhuis: M. van den Aardweg
		Gedurende haar opleiding werkte zij 4 jaar in het Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
		Na het behalen van de examens in 1994 werd zij geaccepteerd als fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa.
		Vanaf eind 1997 werkzaam in Nederland, eerst als assistent en na registratie als chirurg in diverse ziekenhuizen in het land.
	www.atriummc.nl /M__van_den_Aardweg.711.98.html?&backPID=&t=&tt_news= (124 words)

	Star - Bara delay endangered man's life, says clinic
		A private clinic is at loggerheads with Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital over its apparent reluctance to admit referred patients.
		When The Star contacted the hospital yesterday, a nurse confirmed that Dladla had been admitted and that his condition was "not very good".
		Baragwanath spokesperson Hester van den Heever said she would have to investigate the matter and speak to the hospital's chief executive officer and management before responding.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=2273309 (491 words)

	IOL: Crisis hits Jo'burg hospitals
		The cash-strapped hospitals are Chris Hani-Baragwanath, the largest hospital in the southern hemisphere, and Johannesburg Hospital.
		A directive from Johannesburg Hospital management to its surgeons says that from this month, no elective surgery, which includes hip replacements, hernia operations and a host of other procedures, will be done for six months because there is a shortage of money.
		A doctor at a private hospital said the directive meant poor people would be denied treatment because their only alternative would be costly private hospitals.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=125&art_id=vn20031103033027632C413338&set_id=1 (874 words)

	VaalWeekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The boy, Joseph Lehoko of Bophelong, was admitted for vomiting and diarrhoea at Johan Heyns Hospital in Vanderbijlpark, whereupon he was later transferred to the Kopanong Hospital in Vereeniging.
		The boy's mother, Mamosa Lehoko, told Vaal Weekly that after her child was given a drip for a couple of hours at Kopanong Hospital, his feet started swelling and she was told that the baby had poor blood circulation.
		A statement from Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital reads: 'The patient, Joseph Lehoko, was transferred to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, for specialist treatment, from another hospital.
	www.news24.com /Regional_Papers/Components/Category_Article_Text_Template/0,,372_1749717~E,00.html (431 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Cash crunch hits Johannesburg hospitals
		He read the note and then told her to go home: The hospital had ordered a halt to all non-emergency surgery in order to prevent a massive budget overrun.
		Johannesburg's two biggest public hospitals are Johannesburg Hospital, still often called the Joburg Gen after its former name; and Soweto's Chris Hani Baragwanath, a former military base known as Bara.
		She says the public needs to be encouraged "to use appropriate facilities so that we reserve hospitals like Chris Hani Baragwanath for the more seriously ill patient".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/3254050.stm (733 words)

	Long-Sought HIV Drug Saving Thousands of S. African Babies (washingtonpost.com)
		Today, at the same hospital, another nurse showed Butshingi, 24, a piece of paper revealing the news she had hoped for: Her plump and outwardly healthy 1-year-old son, Luthando, showed no signs of the virus in his blood.
		But at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital -- the main source of prenatal and obstetric care for millions of people in Soweto, the sprawling township near Johannesburg -- 25 percent of babies born to HIV-positive women contracted the disease in the mid-1990s, before nevirapine became available.
		Chris Hani Baragwanath, which has nearly 3,000 beds and 5,000 employees, claims to be the largest acute care hospital in the world.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A26252-2004Jun8.html?referrer=emailarticle (976 words)

	EFSA Newsletter: Health
		In another case a girl who was injured in a car accident and was unable to move her arms or legs, could not have a scan to check for spinal injury as the state “cannot afford it”.
		At the Edenvale Hospital in Maritzburg no surgical gloves were used in the theatre one week as the hospital could not afford it.
		The chief of surgery at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, said that for the past three years the hospital’s resources have been devoted to the treatment of 2500 victims of gunshots per year.
	users.iafrica.com /e/ef/efsa/newslet3/health.htm (1292 words)

	Hope for cancer patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She begged the Mafikeng hospital authorities to take Kabo to another hospital because she was optimistic that other specialists could help him.
		Mobeyana added that two weeks ago she received a call from Baragwanath Hospital accusing her of bad-mouthing the hospital in the press.
		The spokesperson for Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital, Dr Emma Bondarenko, denied this but she confirmed that there was nothing the unit could do to save little Kabo's life because the cancer was at an advanced stage.
	www.news24.com /City_Press/News/0,,186-187_1679002,00.html (541 words)

	News and Publicity - Press Statement: [Press]Chris Hani Baragwanath statement 2003-11-12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The cost of this investment will be recouped by the reduction in waste, corruption and theft, and also by the commitment of a workforce motivated by a credible transformation plan that promises to address their frustrations.
		We know that doctors and nurses who are deeply committed to the provision of public service healthcare to the people of South Africa are leaving the public service in droves, in deep despair at the decline of their institutions and at their unbearable working conditions.
		The tertiary hospitals are being asked = to manage savage cuts in their funding without adequate management systems to do= so.
	www.cosatu.org.za /press/2003/[Press]Chris_Hani_Baragwanath_statement--18750.html (973 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She said planning had started on a multi-phased project to provide "state of the art" facilities at the hospital, her department said in a statement.
		In the last financial year, Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital had acquired two new CT scanners, a cardiac catheterisation laboratory, a R25 million digital angiography suite and extensive modernisation of the intensive care unit equipment.
		Large regional hospitals situated in mostly poor areas were allocated R2,3 billion, while central hospitals would receive R2,6 billion.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/health/0,2172,59959,00.html (424 words)

	HIV infection and in-hospital mortality at an academic hospital in South Africa -- Zwi et al. 83 (3): 227 -- Archives ...
		HIV infection and in-hospital mortality at an academic hospital in South Africa -- Zwi et al.
		HIV infection and in-hospital mortality at an academic hospital in South Africa
		hospital stay; by 1996 this had increased to 113 (fig 1).
	adc.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/83/3/227 (2389 words)

	:: PROVINCE TO SPEND R700M ON BARA UPGRADE :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The MEC also announced in her budget that 68 more beds had been provided to the Edenvale Hospital as part of the Alexandra Presidential Urban Renewal Programme and the funding of the Alexandra Community Health Centre had been increased by 11 percent to R19 million.
		MEC Ramokgopa said the hospitals located in the poorer areas such as Sebokeng would get a R2.3 billion boost, while R2.6 billion had been set aside for hospitals in the urban areas of the province, for example Johannesburg Hospital.
		Meanwhile, the health department is to spend R7 million to relocate the Polyclinic from Johannesburg Hospital to the Hillbrow Community Health Centre to ease the workload at the hospital and to improve the efficiency of tertiary health care, the MEC said.
	www.igoli.org.za /2003/june/june6_hospital.stm (474 words)

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