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Two hospitals in the Eastern Cape, Frere in East London and Port Elizabeth’s Livingstone Hospital are among 11 in the country that have been designated to treat the deadly Ebola Virus.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told the National Assembly that all the designated hospitals have received guidelines on handling suspected Ebola patients.
Livingstone and Frere have also both received 30 suits of protective clothing, to be used by health workers in the event of Ebola.
The Minister said he believed South Africa was very ready and that enhanced surveillance had been implemented at air, land and sea at points of entry.
There have been no reported incidents of Ebola in South Africa but the tropical disease has already killed more than 2-thousand people in West Africa.
