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SAHRC orders Northern Cape Health to fix mental hospital mess
The SA Human Rights Commission has given the Northern Cape Department of Health 60 days to sort out the appalling state of the Northern...
Previously-red-flagged firms score new oxygen tender contracts
The Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) appears to have awarded a new R379m contract for hospital PSA oxygen plants countrywide to companies previously...
High Court date set for Kimberley Mental Hospital fraud case
Ten people – including a former Northern Cape MEC – will appear before the Northern Cape High Court in April on fraud and corruption...
Another negligence claim – R6.4m – pummels Eastern Cape Health
In the second financial blow this month to the Eastern Cape Department of Health, the provincial Health MEC has been ordered to pay more...
Chinese MRI machines for Gauteng slammed by doctors
Doctors at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg have questioned a Gauteng Health Department decision to override their choice of MRI scanners and opting...
Surgeries cancelled as Grey’s Hospital struggles without air-conditioning
The recent heatwave has exacerbated an ongoing crisis at Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, where the central air-conditioning system remained non-functional, leaving operating theatres and...
WHO flags data risks with rapid escalation of AI in healthcare
A WHO report on a five-year digital transformation strategy framework was the focus of a debate last week over who owns the data in...
Call for ‘heartless’ MEC’s axing after ‘sleeping on the floor’ comment
In a Marie Antoinette-style “let them eat cake” PR disaster, the head of Gauteng Health has come in for scathing criticism after denying that...
High deaths rates among starving Limpopo children – Wits study
Thousands of South African children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), say concerned experts, calling for urgent review of data quality and reporting...
Deputy President’s son’s link to IDT oxygen plants controversy
Investigations into the now controversial R836m PSA oxygen plants tender have revealed that Thabiso Mashatile, son of Deputy President Paul Mashatile, had personally signed...
Patient's 10-hour wait highlights Rahima Moosa staff crisis
A Johannesburg hospital has apologised to a couple who endured a frustrating 10-hour wait for attention last week, despite their pleas for help and...
Kenya’s NHI loses billions to fraud
Kenya’s Health Cabinet has revealed that the government lost Sh11bn through fraudulent and irregular medical claims under the new Social Health Authority (SHA) system,...
KZN Health reverses pharmacy intern freeze after outcry
The financially-stricken KwaZulu-Natal Health Department has done an about-turn on its controversial decision to freeze pharmacy internship posts – announced this past weekend –...
KZN barges ahead with untested circumcision device
KwaZulu-Natal Health has procured 96 000 CircumQ circumcision devices through a controversial tender currently being challenged in court by CircumQ’s competitor, Unicirc, which alleges...
Public Works severs dodgy hospital lease tied to Matlala
An internal investigation is being launched after the cancellation of a lease agreement between the Department of Public Works & Infrastructure and Medicare 24...
Fraud-accused ex-health boss loses 'privileged testimony' suit
A former North West Health Department HoD, Dr Andrew Lekalakala – arrested in 2019 and charged with fraud and corruption – has been unsuccessful...
Millions more to be spent on abandoned Kopanong hospital
A R146m Covid-19 project at Kopanong Hospital in Vereeniging remains incomplete and abandoned four years after construction began, with the government now scrambling to...
Villagers build own clinic after years with no healthcare
A rural Eastern Cape village, frustrated and tired of its pleas falling on deaf ears, has taken the bull by the horns and built...
MPs demand action after forced sterilisations on HIV+ women
The National Department of Health denies ever having carried out forced sterilisation on HIV+ women, saying that has never been its policy, and that...
Budget shortfall may affect KZN medicine supply – DA
The DA has warned that the continual financial slide of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health is likely to increase the risk of medicine shortages...
Gauteng Health HoD suspension ruled valid
The Labour Court has found that the suspension of Gauteng Health HoD Lesiba Arnold Malotana – who had then accused Premier Panyaza Lesufi of...
Suppliers linked to Tembisa scandal still not blacklisted
Incredibly, none of the 207 suppliers implicated in the Tembisa Hospital looting sprees has yet been blacklisted, although the National Department of Health has...
Outrage as Gauteng Health still uses ‘blacklisted’ firms
Gauteng Health has admitted it lacks the power to blacklist suppliers linked to the R2bn Tembisa Hospital scandal, who continue to do business with...
Treasury's plan to feed the Eastern Cape’s starving children
The Treasury has proposed alternatives to fight hunger and reduce malnutrition statistics in the Eastern Cape after the Human Rights Commission (HRC), two years...
Motsoaledi urges commitment to UHC at G20 meeting
At the recent G20 Health Ministers’ gathering in Polokwane, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi called for a renewed commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), ...
Gauteng Health HoD asks court to lift suspension
An urgent application is to be heard by the Labour Court from suspended Gauteng Health HoD Lesiba Malotana to have his precautionary suspension lifted,...
Doctors, experts owed millions by Road Accident Fund
Millions are owed to doctors and other healthcare specialists, with bills stretching to a decade ago in some cases and others forced to retrench...
Durban hospital embroiled in Tembisa-style corruption
As the fall-out from the grand-scale corruption at Tembisa Hospital continues, another state hospital – the flagship Chief Albert Luthuli Hospital in Durban –...
Gauteng Health boss first casualty in Tembisa fraud crackdown
Heads are starting to roll in Gauteng, with Department of Health & Wellness boss Lesiba Arnold Malotana suspended this week, and the seizure of multi-million rand luxury...