Health MEC denies outbreak of Klebsiella after two babies die from infection
Health officials say they are monitoring all babies in the maternity ward of the Stanger Hospital, while they try to trace the source of the Klebsiella infection - which claimed the lives of two infants.
KZN Health MEC, Sibongiseni Dhlomo, says the bacterial infection was picked up during a routine check.
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Dhlomo has dismissed reports claiming there is an outbreak of the disease.
"Well an outbreak must actually be a devastating outbreak of an infection that actually takes many more. Not that we're saying one baby dying is not something we should not be concerned about. But we are really short of calling it an outbreak, there must be a quite a number of babies - like it must be about six...We are limiting it just an infection that is actually there; we picked it up and we are monitoring it, so that it doesn't become a real outbreak,"he said.