Four clinical departments at the Tygerberg Hospital have been closed for sanitisation. According to a Cape Argus report this comes after the Department of Employment and...South Africa
Five health care workers at Durban's King Edward VIII hospital have tested positive to the coronavirus, with two deaths in the past week in the Eastern Cape and unions...SA Provincial Health
The Western Cape is starting to see increased pressure on its hospital systems ahead of the coronavirus peak, but it has not yet reached peak capacity. Polity reports...SA Provincial Health
A shortage of specialised nurses has meant that Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town is able to run only 25 of its 42 ICU beds, while a shortage of COVID-19 test kits has...
May 27th, 2020
It is important to understand that ethics and law are not automatically synonymous, writes Dr Graham Howarth, head of medical services – Africa, MPS. For doctors to...
Higher Education, Science & Technology Minister Blade Nzimande has granted final-year medical students permission to travel to university campuses and training...Weekly Roundup
Hundreds of South African health workers were given a century-old tuberculosis vaccine on Monday of last week in a trial to see whether the venerable formula can...News Release
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has said in a statement that its officials in the Western Cape are deeply concerned about the...HIV/AIDS
8mg/kg of abacavir given twice daily to normal- and low-birth-weight new-borns with HIV in South Africa was safe and effective according to presentations in a session...
February 12th, 2020
A vindictive, protracted and costly campaign by Western Cape Health against three young doctors for “unlawfully removing two blue chairs with the intent to...
