65-year-old America’s Got Talent judge, Howie Mandel has been rushed to the hospital after collapsing at a Starbucks in Woodland Hills, California on Wednesday October 13.
Howie was reportedly a regular at the coffee shop and it was learnt that customers there were shocked when he collapsed.
Ray J has filed for divorce from his wife Princess Love while battling pneumonia in the hospital. The 40-year-old singer (real name William Ray Norwood Jr.) filed divorce documents Wednesday October 6, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, according to TMZ. Ray J and Princess Love, 37, have been married since 2016, though this marks the third time divorce papers have been filed.
Minister of State for Industry Trade and Investment, Ambassador Maryam Yalwaji Katagun who slumped at an official function in Bauchi State on Monday July 5, has been to the amenity ward at the Trauma Centre of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBU-TH) after being stabilized.
MB reported that the Chief Medical Director of ATBU-TH, Dr Yusuf Jibrin Bara had taken the minister to the amenity ward in the hospital.
Reporter said.
“Her medical challenge was a mild one and the CMD has taken the minister in his personal vehicle to the Amenity ward.
Elsa van der Venter has been cleared of COVID but is still receiving oxygen therapy at a Bloemfontein hospital, while her parents succumbed to the virus.
As the COVID-19 third wave sweeps across the country, those whose lives have been wrecked by the virus are pleading with South Africans to do everything they can to protect themselves.
Dozens of people are dying with the disease every day and thousands more are testing positive.
Among those who’ve tested positive is 26-year-old Elsa van de Venter who recently lost both her parents to COVID and was herself struck down by the virus
Van der Venter has been cleared of COVID but is still receiving oxygen therapy at a Bloemfontein hospital.
From her hospital bed, Van der Venter explains how her mother succumbed to COVID-19 on 13 June.
At the time, her father was already in hospital fighting the disease and then the young woman herself was admitted to the same intensive care unit as her father. He didn’t make it.
“He lay two beds away from me. I never saw him, I never got to say goodbye, I never got to take his hand and be with him… that is a very emotional thing for me.”
Van der Venter father passed away just three days after her mother lost her battle to COVID related complications.
She is urging people to be safe and to keep COVID-19 safety protocols top of mind.
The third wave isn’t a joke. It is something you can’t play with; it strikes near our hearts and near our houses now and I say keep your people safe. If you go to town, if you go and buy your groceries, one person must go and sanitise everything.”
With her having to focus on her own health and recovery, she said she still had to deal with how drastically her life had changed over the past few weeks.
I haven’t really processed my parents passing away. I think that will get real if I’m at home.”
South Africa is in the grips of the worst wave of the virus and medical facilities are buckling under enormous pressure.
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