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SAHPRA: Postponement of ACDP action may affect national COVID vaccination programme
The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has warned that the postponement of the ACDP court action against vaccines for minors has the potential...
AfriForum and DearSA in court to challenge COVID regulations
AfriForum and DearSA have launched a court application challenging government’s regulations for managing COVID-19 after the end of the State of Disaster, reports TimesLIVE.
In...
Legality of new COVID regulations challenged by Solidarity
Solidarity has issued a legal letter to Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla asking him to disclose how the decision on the new COVID-19 health...
Digital Vibes: Mkhize aides said to be ready to co-operate with SIU
Embattled former Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize’s associates Tahera Mather and Naadhira Mitha have enlisted the help of former National Director of Public Prosecutions,...
Albinism killings: Priest, police officer and hospital worker among 12 convicted
A Catholic priest, a police officer and hospital worker are among 12 people convicted for the gruesome murder of a Malawian man with albinism...
Public Protector clears Limpopo Health of irregular PPE tender allegations
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has said there were no irregularities in the awarding of a R932m million tender for personal protective equipment (PPE) at...
Competition Tribunal fines firm R3.4m for over-charging SAPS for masks
A large fine has been meted out to a company that grossly inflated the cost of face masks it supplied to the South African...
Massive disparity in public input figures on controversial COVID regulations
AfriForum and DearSA have raised concerns about government’s handling of the public participation process on the proposed amendments to the Health Act., claiming 310,000...
SA Pharmacy Council’s new rules for provision of immunisation services
The SA Pharmacy Council has published rules for pharmacists who wish to provide immunisation services, such as the administration of COVID-19 or flu vaccines....
RAF not liable for suicide following injuries incurred in accident
The Western Cape High Court has ruled that the Road Accident Fund (RAF) is not liable to cover the loss of income for the...
US Supreme Court greenlights action against staff who refuses vaccination
The US Supreme Court took different actions on two COVID vaccination cases recently. In one (on Monday 18 April), it ruled that the Pentagon...
6 Senegal midwives charged following pregnant woman’s death
Six midwives in Senegal have been charged over a pregnant woman’s death in hospital this month in a case that has sparked outrage.
News24 reports...
Argentinian doctor faces jail for giving legal abortion
Abortion was legalised in Argentina in 2020, but the charges brought against Dr Miranda Ruiz show the battle for reproductive rights is not over.
Ruiz...
Attorney barred after making millions from dubious medical negligence claims
Attorney Zuko Nonxuba, accused of misappropriating hundreds of millions of rands in medical negligence payouts for severely disabled children, has finally been suspended from...
State’s attempt to regulate complementary medicines ruled invalid – SCA
The state’s regulations governing complementary medicines and health supplements are invalid, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled, dismissing with costs the application by...
‘Genetic link’ stipulation in Children’s Act foils infertile man’s surrogacy bid
A single, infertile South African man lost his application in the KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg) challenging a stipulation in the Children’s Act that a single...
Legal resistance to proposed changes to State of Disaster stipulations
ActionSA and Solidarity are among the organisations threatening legal action against the proposed changes to the amended State of Disaster regulations if accepted in...
Notifiable Medical Conditions amendments are ‘poorly drafted’ and ‘Orwellian’
A badly written amendment to the Notifiable Medical Conditions regulations will normalise a permanent totalitarian healthcare state, writes columnist Ivo Vegter, in Daily Friend.
As...
Phaahla extends comment deadline on controversial health regulations
Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla has extended the deadline for public comment on controversial health regulations that critics say entrench the extraordinary powers of...
150,000 public submissions on National Health Act
More than 150,000 submissions have been made on the amendments to the National Health Act, and the period for public comment has now been...
Free-for-all as federal judge strikes down Biden’s mask mandate
Confusion has followed a ruling by a federal judge in Florida who this week struck down President Joe Biden’s national mask mandate covering airplanes,...
Eviction of traditional healer and her animals reversed by Gauteng High Court
The owners of a Johannesburg business premises who kicked out a sangoma, along with some of the “tools of her trade”, from the office...
HPCSA gazettes its new adjusted fee structure
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has, by notice in the Government Gazette, published new rules for the payment of fees to...
Former Health Minister’s come-back ambition suffers new blows
The controversial decision of Parliament’s Ethics Committee to clear former Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize of wrongdoing arising from the irregular Digital Vibes tender...
Rampant legal collusion in health sector corruption – MUT/Stellenbosch study
Collusion between legal practitioners – including the State Attorney’s Office – medical staff, politicians and administrators has resulted in the government being defrauded of...
After 5 years and a failed HPCSA disciplinary, anti-abortion doctor can complete training
After protesting his innocence since 2017, Dr Jacques de Vos can finally complete his community service and practise medicine, after the lifting of his...
SCA: ‘Unreasonable and egregious’ 24-year delay in injury compensation
Police officer Roebel Botha, who was injured 24 years ago while on duty, is due to receive compensation after a legal fight with the...
Resistance to Health Department’s stop-gap regulation powers
Some activist groupings and opposition political parties have rejected the idea of the replacement of the State of Disaster with temporary regulations to be...
Application to compel public release of expert COVID advice and decisions
Civil society organisation the Health Justice Initiative (HJI) has filed papers at the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, for the government to make expert COVID-19...
Confession claiming Mkhize was involved in Deokaran’s murder may not feature in trial
Legal experts and a retired High Court judge said on Tuesday (12 Apri) that if the confession of Phakamani Hadebe, one of six men...
‘Braai of masks’: Black Consumer Council calls for day of defiance of draft regulations
THE National Black Consumer Council (NBCC) is calling for a national defiance campaign against all COVID-19 protocols, including mask-wearing, hand-sanitisers, social distancing and the...
Trainee UK surgeon struck from roll over false sex claims and faked research
A trainee surgeon has been struck from the UK doctors’ register after a medical tribunal hearing found her guilty of “persistent and deliberate” dishonesty.
Dr...
Class action silicosis claimants so far paid R320m of R5bn settlement
It’s been a decade since gold miners afflicted by the lung disease silicosis first launched a class action suit seeking compensation from 30 gold...
Spain, in effect, criminalises protests outside abortion clinics
Spain has criminalised the harassment or intimidation of women going for an abortion under new legislation approved by the Senate last week.
The Guardian reports...
Pandemic’s predicted deluge of medical malpractice claims hasn’t happened
COVID-19 seemingly created the perfect conditions for medical malpractice claims, write Carol Holness, Anika de Kock and Donald Dinnie of Norton Rose Fulbright SA in...
MB and ChB among ‘unaccredited’ Walter Sisulu programmes flagged
Thousands of degrees awarded by Walter Sisulu University (WSU), including for Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (ChB), were claimed by the...
Court threats over South Africa’s ‘permanent State of Disaster’
Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s warning that government could again declare a State of Disaster if COVID-19 infections spiral, has...
Mbalula and RAF scrabble to prevent release of Auditor-General’s findings
The Auditor-General is in a tussle with the Minister of Transport and the Road Accident Fund over their efforts to prevent the release of...
Alcohol tags successful at keeping 97% of released offenders stay sober
More than 97% of offenders on sobriety tags have stayed off alcohol, a year after they were introduced in England following a successful pilot...
Criminal conviction for injection death causes consternation in US nursing profession
The conviction of US nurse RaDonda Vaught, found guilty last month in an accidental injection death, has sparked fear and outrage among many nurses,...