Hundreds of third-year nursing students at Ann Latsky Nursing College in Johannesburg are boycotting their exams after complaining that they were not adequately prepared...South Africa
Exactly a year after the start of the arbitration hearings that sought justice for the families of the dead Life Esidimeni patients, the esteemed Lancet Commission on...SA Provincial Health
Gauteng Health has once again come under fire for racking up R1.7bn in irregular expenditure as well as "disregarding the necessary controls to curb irregular and...
October 10th, 2018A study has determined the official death toll of the Life Esidimeni scandal is 131. The mortality rate among 1,442 mentally ill patients transferred out of hospitals in...
October 3rd, 2018SA Health Minister Dr Aaron Mostoaledi has cited overcrowding as a root cause of recent Klebsiella-related infant deaths. However, while the number of beds indicates...
Doctors say it is safer to keep 52 new born babies in the neonatal intensive care units and maternity wards at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus – where six...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...Weekly Roundup
Around 400 national Health Department employees, who work at a building in Pretoria, staged a protest last week to demand that they be moved for their own safety. News24...SA Provincial Health
Five babies have now died from antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus in Ekurhuleni as the hospital shuts down wards and struggles...SA Provincial Health
Seven hundred mental patients in the Eastern Cape are at risk‚ with the Life Esidimeni facility in Kirkwood facing closure after its contract was only extended to...
