September 17th, 2020Anaesthetist Dr Abdulhay Munshi was shot dead in Johannesburg on Wednesday night (16 September) in what has been described by the Health Professions Council as a vigilante killing and by the SA Medical Association as an assassination. The family...
Last night, 8 July, Gauteng would become the new epicentre of the COVID-19 epidemic, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize told the National Assembly in a briefing earlier in the day, reports MedicalBrief. It strikes a an ill-prepared province...Breaking News
Last week’s freeze by WHO, Belgium, France and Italy into the use of hydrochloroquine to treat COVID-19 was based on suspect data from a tiny US company with six employeees, reports The Guardian. Both the New England Journal of Medicine and The...Breaking News
The findings of the University of KwaZulu-Natal investigation into the COVID-19 outbreak that led to the closure of Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban — infecting 119 patients and staff, with 15 deaths — has been released, reports...Breaking News
In an address to the nation last night, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the largest public health mobilisation in South African history, enabled by the "enormous sacrifices" of health workers, meant that by the end of May, in most of the country...Breaking News
A doctor working at KwaDukuza Private Hospital on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast has contracted COVID-19 and is in self-isolation, reports News24. "We wish to confirm that a doctor in private practice tested positive for COVID-19 on 9 May and has...Breaking News
So far, 511 South African health workers have tested positive for COVID-19, 26 have been hospitalised, while a doctor and nurse have succumbed to the virus, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has revealed.
Polity reports that Mkhize was speaking...Breaking News
Gilead Sciences said its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir helped improve outcomes for patients with COVID-19, suggesting it worked better when given earlier in the course of infection, reports Reuters.
Gilead provided information on two...Breaking News
With healthcare professionals’ personal and financial wellbeing being significantly impacted by the spread of COVID-19, Medical Protection Society has announced that members who have experienced a drop in their private practice income will...Breaking News
The World Health Organisation declared Wednesday night that the coronavirus outbreak spreading around the globe can now be characterised as a pandemic, "not a word to use lightly or carelessly", said WHO Director Dr Tedros Adhanom...Breaking News
The South African government was not considering any travel or trade bans at this point, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in a briefing to MPs on the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. News24 reports that Mkhize told Parliament's health...Breaking News
The Health Department’s plans to switch HIV patients to a cheaper pill containing dolutegravir have hit yet another stumbling block after measures instituted by the medicines regulator to warn women of its potential risks have unexpectedly scared...Breaking News
With coronavirus deaths now exceeding 1,100 and the World Health Organisation — not an organisation inclined to hyperbole — saying that it is a threat potentially worse than terrorism, there have been calls for other countries to adopt...Breaking News
The number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus has overtaken the 2003 SARS outbreak inside of mainland China with more than 6,000 confirmed cases of the virus in mainland China, including 132 deaths, writes MedicalBrief. The CEO...Breaking News
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health said that there was "no evidence" that a 12-year-old boy was sexually assaulted at Durban's RK Khan Hospital, refuting an earlier report in the Daily News.
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The government’s ambitious and controversial National Health Insurance plans — which it insists will be implemented come hell or high water — got barely a mention in Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement ...
