The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) in Gauteng has defended a nurse who was implicated in a Mamelodi Hospital incident in which a 76-year-old...Weekly Roundup
A worldwide shortage of an active pharmaceutical ingredient is the reason behind the anti-retroviral (ARV) medication shortfall across the country, Health-e News reports...Weekly Roundup
The former Gauteng Health Department head who presided over the Life Esidimeni tragedy, Barney Selebano, will face the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) in...South Africa
The Public Servants Association of SA said it was appalled by the inhumane conditions faced by mental-health patients at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in...SA Provincial Health
The national government has taken over administration of the Eastern Cape’s mental health directorate. A Daily Dispatch report says this was after Health Minister...
December 12th, 2018The slow pace at which the government is moving on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has drawn the ire of Cosatu, which plans to raise the issue at a meeting...
Two years after the Life Esidimeni tragedy not a single professional body has taken steps against professionals involved in the project, a Beeld report notes. Health...
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...
Psychiatrist Dr Kiran Sukeri‚ who the Health Ombudsman accused of making false claims of ill-treatment of patients at the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in the Eastern...Weekly Roundup
The Eastern Cape Health Department has quietly scraped a multi-million-rand mental health facility, earmarked for Dora Nginza Hospital. But, says the Democratic...
