{"id":294348,"date":"2025-11-13T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/?p=294348"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:34:13","slug":"brandwond-sorg-verbeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/brandwond-sorg-verbeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Twee nuwe eenhede help om brandwond-sorg te verbeter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;n Kleuter wat &#8216;n kokende ketel van die toonbank aftrek; &#8216;n 10-jarige wat in &#8216;n huisbrand beseer is\u2009&#8230;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beserings as gevolg van brandwonde kan in &#8216;n oogwink gebeur en die herstelpad is dikwels lank en pynlik met &#8216;n blywende uitwerking.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die behandeling van kinders met brandwonde in die Kaapse Wynlande is aansienlik makliker danksy twee nuwe eenhede vir pediatriese brandwonde, wat op Maandag 10 November by die Worcester-gemeenskapsdaghospitaal en die Worcester-hospitaal geopen is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jong pasi\u00ebnte van oor die Wes-Kaap heen het voorheen spesialisbehandeling by die <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrenshospitaltrust.org.za\/the-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rooikruis-kinderhospitaal<\/a> in Kaapstad ontvang. Dit het egter aansienlike uitgawes en uitdagings vir families meegebring. Tydens die opening van die<a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/cape-winelands-opens-first-dedicated-paediatric-burns-unit-at-ceres-hospital\/\"> Wynland se eerste pediatriese brandwond-eenheid<\/a> in Ceres in Julie, het die ma van &#8216;n beseerde kind vertel dat hul reiskoste na Kaapstad R1\u2009400 beloop het, maar van die plaas waar hulle woon het dit slegs R17 gekos Ceres toe. Dit maak &#8216;n beduidende verskil in die lewe van veral arm gesinne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Brandwonde3_55733.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elke eenheid is met &#8216;n speelgebied toegerus om die herstelproses so maklik as moontlik vir pasi\u00ebnte en hul ouers te maak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Die nuwe eenhede se mure is vrolik geverf met die temas van superhelde en onderwatertonele. Dit is ook toegerus met speelgebiede. Kinders met brandwonde sal deur die hospitaal na die eenheid, wat in die kindersaal gele\u00eb is, verwys word sodat die pasi\u00ebnte so gou as moontlik pynmedikasie en behandeling kan ontvang.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goeie samewerking tussen die Wes-Kaapse departement van gesondheid en welstand, die <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrenshospitaltrust.org.za\/the-hospital\/\">Children&#8217;s Hospital Trust <\/a>en ander rolspelers, het tot die vestiging van di\u00e9 pediatriese brandeenhede gelei om w\u00eareldklas-sorg aan kinders in die Wynlande te bied. Die trust het R18 miljoen bel\u00ea om die drie eenhede te vestig en die projek is ten volle deur skenkers gefinansier, wat die konstruksie,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aankoop van mediese toerusting en opleiding vir die behandeling van erge brandwonde vir verpleegpersoneel en gesondheidswerkers dek. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gesondheidswerkers van oor die distrik heen het ook spesialis-opleiding ontvang om vinnige behandeling vir jong pasi\u00ebnte te verseker.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Rooikruis-hospitaal behandel jaarliks sowat 1\u2009000 pasi\u00ebnte in die hospitaal en 4\u2009000 buite-pasi\u00ebnte. 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