The Oncology unit at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg will re-open this week, following numerous complaints from cancer patients regarding their medication,...Weekly Roundup
It’ll take a year for South Africa to reach COVID-19 population immunity – and age will be a central factor in deciding who gets the vaccination and when. A Sowetan...Weekly Roundup
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says the creation of a COVID-19 vaccine compensation fund is well under way. Beeld reports that Mkhize gave some detail about the fund when...
April 8th, 2020
Three weeks ago, emergency doctors at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg came up with an innovation to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19. The Times...
Gauteng premier David Makhura is lobbying the national Health Department to take over the financing of the province’s four central hospitals, arguing that they are...Weekly Roundup
Gauteng Health reports it recorded fewer than 1% of adverse events in its public health facilities from March 2018 to June 2019.
News24 reports that the Health MEC...Weekly Roundup
According to the 2018 annual census of clinical and radiation oncologists conducted by the South African Society of Clinical and Radiation Oncology, although the number...SA Provincial News
More than 200 newly qualified nurses finishing their community service at state hospitals in Gauteng province are not being absorbed into permanent posts as happened...SA Provincial Health
The Gauteng Health Department says an interim report revealed that "extreme overcrowding" played a major factor in the spreading of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria...
July 11th, 2018Just because healthcare workers are providing an essential service does not mean they can't protest – or does it? The Times reports that the South African Human Rights...
