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FEATURE
Health: the cornerstone
of civilisation
By Eamonn Ryan
Healthcare is without a doubt one of the cornerstones of modern
society. While healthcare has seen dramatic evolution through
the last couple of decades, the sector is currently faced with a
conundrum in terms of changing technology, clinical modalities
and the ever-increasing requirements to save on the excessive
consumption of energy and other natural resources.
It rapidly spread through wards, causing panic among
doctors who had never witnessed anything like it. Urbani
lead the race against time to contain the outbreak, but
a month later was himself dead. His killer: SARS, the
disease that 16 years ago arrived on the medical
scene to take lives in cities as far flung as the Far East
to Canada.
Doctor Carlo Urbani was at his desk in 2003 at the
World Health Organisation (WHO) office in Hanoi,
Vietnam, when he got a desperate call from the
city’s French Hospital. There, a Chinese-American
businessman named Johnny Chen was critically ill
with an aggressive flu-like disease.
Mediclinic has started operating from brand-new, world-class medical facilities in Stellenbosch, purpose-built for the private hospital group by
Atterbury and its partners to serve the growing demands to care for the Winelands community.
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January 2020 Volume 25 I Number 11