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Medico-Legal

SCA: Doctor must face HPCSA over ‘investments’ solicited from patients

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has overturned a High Court decision that shielded a doctor accused of improperly persuading patients to invest in...

Inquiry finds schemes discriminated against black healthcare providers

Some of South Africa’s biggest medical aid schemes practised "unfair racial discrimination" in their fraud, waste and abuse investigations of black...

UK coalition seeks emergency indemnity over COVID-19 treatment decisions

Emergency legislation is needed to protect British doctors and nurses from "inappropriate" legal action over critical COVID-19 treatment decisions...

SA’s vexing problem of liability for potential vaccine side-effects

Who is liable for serious vaccine side effects? That, says a report in The Times, s an unanswered question hovering over negotiations between...

4,200 wine farmers threaten legal action on alcohol ban

Just a week after SA Breweries took the government to court over its alcohol sales ban, a group representing about 4,200 family-owned wine farms is...

Hawks investigating allegedly inflated SAPS PPE tenders

Two top cops assigned by Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole to investigate and suspend Crime Intelligence head Peter Jacobs on charges of alleged...

WSU students guilty of murder of final-year medical student

Four Walter Sisulu University (WSU) students have been found guilty of the murder of final-year medical student Lwando Mantshontsho (23) in his room...

PE specialist faces eight sexual misconduct complaints

Eight former patients of a Port Elizabeth medical specialist have laid criminal complaints against him – six of sexual assault and two of rape. The...

Harare lab owned by former Health minister linked to COVID-19 ‘scam’

A private laboratory, reportedly owned by disgraced Zimbabwean Health Minister Obadiah Moyo, is accused of issuing fake COVID-19 certificates to...

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Professional Nurse (Nimart) – School Based HIV and GBV Prevention Programme x 2

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Sessional Medical Officer (Doctor) – Key Populations Programme (Transgender)

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Research Nurse x 2 (12 Months Contract)

Wits Health Consortium - RHI, Research Nurse x 2 (12 Months Contract), Welkom, Lejweleputsa

Research Coordinator

Wits Health Consortium - RHI, Research Coordinator, Lejweleputswa, Free State

Laboratory Manager (18 Months Contract)

Wits Health Consortium - SBIMB, Laboratory Manager (18 Months Contract), Parktown

Medical Officer (Doctor)

Wits Health Consortium - PHRU, Medical Officer (Doctor), Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto

Study Coordinator (Prof Nurse)

Wits Health Consortium - VIDA, Study Coordinator (Prof Nurse), Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto

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