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Depressing situation at EC hospitals – deputy PP
"The situation at Eastern Cape hospitals is depressing.” is how Deputy Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka described conditions in the province's overwhelmed public hospitals...
8 Gauteng doctors die: Workers blame poor PPE
Angry health-care workers have blamed shortages of quality personal protective equipment (PPE) for the death of at least eight doctors from COVID-19 in Gauteng...
KZN hospital block burnt to ground because of its COVID-19 use
A security guard has been injured and a R6m hospital building in northern KwaZulu-Natal burnt to the ground, allegedly to protest the hospital being...
Despite premier's praise for Health MEC, Public Protector 'shocked' by EC hospitals
Despite Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane giving Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba a glowing performance review, saying her successes have been shadowed by “few...
Eastern Cape 'hospitals of horrors': Mkhize's experts will place ads
Last week a BBC investigation drew worldwide attention to the Eastern Cape's "hospitals of horrors", writes Medicalbrief. This week Health Minister Dr Zweli-Mkhize's "team...
NW Health makes U-turn on controversial suspension of Prof Variava
The controversial "precautionary suspension" of one of North West Health’s senior clinicians two weeks ago has been lifted, with Professor Ebrahim Variava returning to...
Oxygen stocks run low in Gauteng as strain mounts
Gauteng doctors say that oxygen stocks are running low and that the testing system, already under strain, is malfunctioning, reports Daily Maverick.
Doctors in Gauteng...
Eastern Cape hospitals crisis: 'Patients fight one another for oxygen'
It has been a very dark week in the Eastern Cape as all the unheeded warnings, the hidden agendas, patchy leadership and years of...
Stay-away brings another EC hospital to the brink of collapse
Yet another Eastern Cape hospital is on the brink of collapse because stay-away actions by general assistants, including porters and hospital cleaners, and nurses...
Suspended Prof 'acted in a manner suspicious of unapproved research’
Responding to concern within the medical community over the abrupt suspension of Professor Ebrahim Variava, North West Health Department said the “serious allegations”...
Mediation saves Gauteng Health R2.2bn in medico-legal cases
The Gauteng Health budget for the 2020/21 financial years will benefit from medico-legal savings of more then R2bn, brought about by moving from litigation...
4 Eastern Cape nuns die from COVID-19 and 17 test positive
Four Eastern Cape nuns have died from COVID-19 within days of each other while 17 more have tested positive for the virus as a...
Union brings PE's primary COVID hospital to brink of collapse
After bringing the largest casualty unit in the province to its knees over the past two weeks, hospital cleaners, porters and laundry workers returned...
Success of high-flow nasal oxygen brings Western Cape rethink
The Western Cape has shifted to using high-flow nasal oxygen treatment on COVID-19 patients after the first six patients placed on ventilators died at...
Eastern Cape projects up to 6,000 COVID-19 deaths in next months
COVID-19 is expected to kill between 5,500 to 6,000 people in the Eastern Cape over the next four months – the projected deaths are...
Western Cape: 'Even in best case scenario, we'll be short of ICU beds'
The Western Cape is starting to see increased pressure on its hospital systems ahead of the coronavirus peak, but it has not yet reached...
Tygerberg Hospital plea for more specialised nurses
A shortage of specialised nurses has meant that Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town is able to run only 25 of its 42 ICU beds,...
Gauteng tries to trace 12,000 HIV and TB patients who haven't collected medication
Gauteng Health is trying to trace thousands of TB and HIV-positive patients who have failed to collect their medication since the start of the...
Eastern Cape — with only 66 ICU/HC beds — races to control COVID-19 superclusters
The Eastern Cape is fighting to gain control over fast-growing coronavirus outbreaks as the province’s premier admits that they have only 66 ICU and...
Health MEC tells Cubans to avoid the 'big mistake' of doing things the SA way
The Cuban doctors deployed to Limpopo should not make the “big mistake” of their predecessors and start doing things "the South African way”, said...
Nurses without PPE will not be allowed to care for patients – Mhize
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has affirmed his department's commitment that no nurse will be allowed to care for patients without the appropriate protective...
Gauteng's antidepressant stockouts impacting psychiatric patients — experts
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku has revealed that over the past year, the province has been experiencing a shortage of nine drugs due to...
Crucial PE cardiac facility remains closed after 17-month EC Health bungle
It has been 17 months since the cardiac catheterisation laboratory (cath lab) at the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital broke down, leading to the collapse...
Limpopo's 33% nursing vacancy rate ‘not a crisis’ — MEC
Responding to nursing unions' anger over Limpopo staff shortages and crumbling healthcare infrastructure, Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba's office says hospitals are operating well...
R2bn 'monument to corruption' in Kimberley still half empty
Seven kilometres from Kimberley’s famous Big Hole sits another of the mining city’s record-breaking landmarks: South Africa’s most expensive mental health hospital. City Press...
KZN nurses suspended for ignoring woman in labour
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...
More than a quarter of Bara staff absent on any given day
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, one of the largest in the world, has the lowest staff attendance of the seven largest hospitals in Gauteng.
According...
Union to wants court order to protect nurses from hospital violence
The nursing union, Denosa, said it would approach the court with the view to obtain an order forcing the department to adhere to the...
Mob violence forces QwaQwa health facilities to close their doors
Mofumahadi Manapo Mopeli Hospital and other health facilities situated in volatile QwaQwa have temporarily closed their doors to new admissions, following mob violence that...
Lack of funds prevented filling of posts at hospital unit where 10 babies died
More than 100 extra posts approved at the Gauteng hospital where 10 babies recently died were never filled because of lack of budget, writes...
Nursing union threatens to remove staff after shootings in Limpopo casualty
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) in Limpopo has threatened to remove union staff members from health facilities if safety and security...
Man arrested after discovery of dead intern doctor in Limpopo hospital room
Limpopo police arrested a 25-year-old man on Monday after the gruesome discovery of a dead intern doctor in her locked room at Mankweng Hospital,...
Limpopo Health terminates community service contracts
Limpopo Health is to terminate the contracts of more than 150 community service doctors and other professionals at the end of the month because...
KZN Health MEC puts her top officials on the public firing line
KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu says she has found a way of dealing with poor service delivery and the abuse of patients’ rights at...
Health MEC defends tender marred by irregularity allegations
Limpopo Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba has come out in defence of a multimillion-rand aero-medical tender that is marred by allegations of irregularity and...
Bogus doctor worked for month in Gauteng hospital
A 24-year-old man hoodwinked the Mamelodi Hospital into accepting him to work as a student doctor while he did not have qualifications, says a...
Ramped up security following killing of hospital patients
Following the recents killing of at least two patients, the provincial governments of Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape have ramped up security measures,...
Gauteng Health worst for non-payment of creditors
Gauteng Health is the worst in the province when it comes to non-payment of suppliers, with 987 businesses owed a combined R1.9bn dating back...
Two more attacks at hospitals; patient killed
Hospital staff and patients came under attack in two separate incidents in the Eastern Cape at the weekend, with one patient stabbed to death...
3 bogus doctors arrested in registered practice
Three bogus doctors from Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been arrested working in the registered practice of a Springs doctor.
Springs residents...