With death and infection rates climbing, MedicalBrief notes that health experts have slated the government's readiness for the second wave of COVID-19.
The SA Medical...News Release
About R500m of funds meant for urgent COVID-19 beds has been wasted on the AngloGold Ashanti Hospital on the far West Rand that will probably treat not a single COVID-19...Weekly Roundup
The Gauteng Health Department is reviewing all security vetting processes for senior officials. According to an IoL report, this is amid concerns among opposition...Weekly Roundup
The Gauteng Health Department is to carry out an antibody survey to determine the rate of COVID-19 infections in the province, reports The Citizen. The department will...
October 28th, 2020In Gauteng the right of access to healthcare services has been sacrificed on the altar of politics and political factionalism within the ANC, writes Mark Heywood, the...
The Gauteng Health Department has given Ruth Mabyana, CEO of Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto, a “precautionary transfer” amid a misconduct debacle in which she has...Weekly Roundup
The Gauteng Health Department says the Nasrec field hospital will remain open until January, as it closes the other three quarantine/isolation sites. The Times quotes...South Africa
Corruption is rife within South African health sector institutions such as the state laboratory service, the health professions council and the product oversight...SA Provincial Health
A Mail&Guardian check on four of Gauteng's biggest state hospitals — Chris Hani Baragwanath, Charlotte Maxeke, Thelle Magoerane, and Tembisa — found...
October 7th, 2020Actions of staff at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital during a strike violated human rights by denying a “considerable number” of patients the right to...
