KZN Health has called on its hospital managements to enforce stricter screening when taking on medical staff, following the arrest of a second bogus doctor, reports The...Weekly Roundup
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who is visiting Gauteng hospitals, has lashed out at the government for dragging its feet in preparing facilities to fight COVID-19....
April 29th, 2020
While limitation of rights may occur in the public interest in the context of a pandemic, the SA government's plans forcibly to isolate people who test positive for...
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...South Africa
The South African Medical Association (Sama) has thrown its weight behind nurses who have filed a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) following the...SA Provincial Health
Two KwaZulu-Natal nurses have been suspended after they allegedly ignored a woman in labour, News24 reports KZN Health said. The woman eventually lost her child. "The...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...
February 5th, 2020
The likelihood of a coronavirus outbreak in Africa was “very, very high”, the World Health Organisation warns, as cases of the respiratory illness soar past the...
KZN Health has welcomed a controversial recent Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) ruling that Gauteng Health will no longer have to fork out large cash sums for...Medico-Legal
Dozens of babies and three mothers died at hospitals in England over four decades because of major staff failings, in what experts said could become the biggest...