Health Minister Zweli Mkhize might be hinting that the lockdown will be further eased, when he explained at a media briefing that scientific models showed that...People
While the rest of the country is corralled behind closed doors, South Africa's COVID-19 heroes are at the frontline in the war. The Times reports on the sacrifices...Medico-Legal
Four COVID-19 positive patients, among the first group identified as carrying the virus upon their return from Italy, are demanding to be released from quarantine in...Weekly Roundup
Six bags of soiled and possibly coronavirus-contaminated linen at Durban’s Addington Hospital became the subject of concern when staff were allegedly instructed to...Weekly Roundup
Due to the complex nature of certain ailments, clinicians often had to make difficult, but important, decisions that might be difficult for patients and their relatives...
February 26th, 2020
A report by the Gender Equality Commission implicates the State in forced sterilisation of HIV positive women, writes MedicalBrief. The Health Professions Council has...
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...Weekly Roundup
The Democratic Alliance (DA) reports that it was denied access to Addington Hospital by KZN Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu on Thursday of last week ahead of an...Weekly Roundup
Patients at Addington Hospital had to once again use the stairs because its lifts were broken, says an Independent on Saturday report after they visited the 16-storey...
September 25th, 2019
The rights of migrants to healthcare are not absolute, writes Prof Narnia Bohle-Muller, in Daily Maverick. There are exceptions and international human rights law...
