The Gauteng Department of Health has scheduled more than 300 surgeries for Tuesday at 23 public health facilities.
The procedures include arthroplasty, inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, replacement of obturator post-hemi maxillectomy, varicocelectomy, bartholin cystectomy, umbilical incisional hernia repair and procedures for scoliosis.
This is the second leg of the surgical marathon, with the first having kicked off on Mandela Day when government and private medical practitioners partnered to perform 728 procedures.
“The surgical marathon is not only about reducing the backlog faced by the health facilities across the province but also about building capacity and skills transfer among health practitioners,” the department said.
The department said that between July 19 to August 25 a total of 10,955 surgeries have successfully been performed at its facilities.
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