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WATCH: 103-YEAR-OLD CAPE TOWN WOMAN SURVIVES COVID-19

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One of the country’s oldest Covid-19 patients has recovered and was recently discharged from the Cape Town Mediclinic!

Bertha Meltzer, 103, was admitted to hospital on 15 July with pneumonia. She was put on a course of nasal oxygen and discharged on 28 July!

Watch the heartwarming video below as hospital staff celebrate her recovery:

https://www.facebook.com/MediclinicSouthernAfrica/posts/3402636903082821

 

Liesl Smit
Liesl Smit
Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm

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