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KZN Health MEC demands answers after rape of nurse
KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu has demanded answers from Nkonjeni Hospital's management in Mahlabathini and a contracted security company after a nurse was raped...
Gauteng needs R6bn for ailing hospitals to pass muster
Gauteng hospitals are in such bad condition that it will cost about R6bn to make them compliant with the Occupational Health and Safety Act....
KZN Health investigates claim of needle left in jaw
KwaZulu-Natal Health is investigating yet another allegation of negligence after an object thought to be part of a needle was left in a man’s...
Eastern Cape Health has called in sick
The Eastern Cape government is clearly sick to its core, with the various government departments racking up in excess of 1.2m days of sick...
6,000 surgical patients in Gauteng face up to 3-year wait
Nearly 6,000 patients are awaiting surgery at Gauteng’s major academic hospital, The Citizen reports. More than 4,000 were registered at George Mukhari Academic Hospital,...
Orthopaedic surgeon alleged to have planned hit on neurosurgeon is murdered
A prominent orthopaedic surgeon who earlier faced charges in connection with an alleged hit planned against his neurosurgeon brother-in-law, has been stabbed to death...
Gauteng Health fails to spend its budget, despite service backlogs
Gauteng Health failed to spend a whopping R750m of its 2018/19 budget despite the huge backlogs in providing quality health services. IoL reports that...
NICD confirms measles outbreak in North West
Three laboratory-confirmed measles cases were detected in Rustenburg sub-district, Bojanala Platinum district in North West province within a period of four weeks, the National...
Tender bungle brings EC hospital's operating theatres to a standstill
Six operating theatres at Livingstone Hospital are standing empty while more than forty highly qualified personnel, including surgeons, theatre sisters, anaesthetists and auxiliary...
184 Gauteng Health staff illegally doing business with government
Approximately 184 Gauteng Health staff members have private businesses that have dealt with government departments including their own. News24 reports that this is according...
Hawks investigate Eastern Cape Health's R150m payment to Coega CDC
The R150m in fees paid by Eastern Cape Health to the Coega Development Corporation in September last year has become a subject of investigation...
KZN Health backtracks on foreign doctor hiring freeze because of Cuban trainees
KwaZulu-Natal Health has done an about-turn on a circular that went out stating that the hiring of foreign doctors would be halted. News24 reports...
Gauteng Health sets out to recover R500m from former HOD
Gauteng Health has instructed its lawyers to recover almost R500m from its former head of department, Dr Tiego "Barney" Selebano, and two other officials,...
EC Health wants police to prioritise crimes against EMS crews
Eastern Cape Health has called for police to prioritise the investigation of crimes committed against ambulance crews, which increasingly involves fake calls and ambushes,...
18 suspended Gauteng Health officials still earning a year later
Gauteng Health has paid more than R2 million to 18 officials placed on suspension with full pay for almost a year, writes Baldwin Ndaba for The...
Gauteng Health extends irregular hospital security contracts
Irregular Gauteng Health hospital security contracts worth R650m annually that were awarded in 2014 have been extended on a month by month basis for...
Newborn dies after being placed in warmer, MEC wants 'action'
North West Health MEC has demanded action following the death of a baby from burns sustained at the Mahikeng Provincial Hospital. The Citizen reports...
Gauteng Health commits R1bn to refurbishing failing facilities
Gauteng Health will commit R1bn towards maintenance and refurbishment, following upon claims by the Democratic Alliance that not a single state health facility in...
Limpopo doctor allegedly botched 16 medical circumcisions
Parents up in arms after their sons’ circumcisions were botched at the surgery of a medical doctor contracted to perform the procedures. City Press...
Waiting times for cancer treatment worsen at Charlotte Maxeke
Waiting times for cancer treatment at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital have worsened over the last year, particularly for 400 prostate cancer patients who...
Limpopo recall of Rocephin after death of 2 toddlers
Limpopo Health has launched an investigation regarding circumstances which led to the death of two toddlers at Dr CN Phatudi Hospital in Maake, after...
KZN Agriculture on high alert for human rabies after 4 deaths
The KwaZulu-Natal Agriculture Department is on high alert for human rabies in the province following the death of four people between May and June...
Police to escort paramedics in 6 'troublesome' Johannesburg areas
The City of Johannesburg said it would be intensifying its fight against attacks on its medics and the hijackings of their vehicles. According to...
Despite dire state of facilities, Gauteng Health fails to spend R504m
Gauteng Health failed to spend R504m set aside for equipment in the last financial year, while blowing its budget for hospitals and administration, a...
Armed robbers hold up patient and staff at Life Westville Hospital
Four men, at least one of them armed, stormed the Life Westville Hospital holding up the security guards, staff member and a patient waiting...
Mamelodi Hospital is 'moving to mortuary state’ — Gauteng premier
The level of chaos at Mamelodi Day Hospital, where a 76-year-old patient from Eersterus, Martha Marais was tied to the benches of the waiting...
DA calls hospital’s defence of long queues 'outrageous'
Steve Biko Academic Hospital has blamed long queues on patients themselves. CEO Dr Mathabo Mathebula said patients arriving earlier than 04:00 are there for...
Addington Hospital patients evacuated after fire breaks out
The KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane has commended the efforts and actions of security officers and staff at Durban's Addington Hospital who safely evacuated...
Calls for urgent measures after 2 EMS staff are shot in Durban
The Democratic Alliance's (DA) KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson on health, Dr Imran Keeka, has made a call on the province's new health MEC to urgently implement...
Hospital overcrowding: 192 instead of 51 in maternity ward
Tembisa Hospital has confirmed that critically ill patients were being admitted despite wards reaching their capacity, due to high demand for healthcare services in...
Safety protests shut down Mpumalanga out-patient services
Three Mpumalanga hospitals are running on skeleton staff and have shut down outpatient services as workers embark on a stay away over a spate...
Call on Mkhize to address KZN Health’s 'denial of reality'
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has called on the Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize to prioritise the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Health system – as part...
SAHRC 'concerns' about hospital where patient was tied to a bench
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has raised concerns about healthcare facilities across Gauteng after touring the Mamelodi Hospital which has been in the...
KZN probes suspicious death of mother and unborn baby
Newly appointed KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu has launched a probe into the "suspicious" death of a 23-year-old mother and her unborn baby following...
Doctors and nurse on ‘leave' following video of patient abuse
A nurse, security guard and two doctors implicated in tying 76-year-old Martha Marais to a bench at the Mamelodi Day Hospital have been put...
Bafflement over Africa's highest HIV prevalence in Pietermaritzburg
Experts are baffled by the fact that uMgungundlovu municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, with Pietermaritzburg the major city, continues to experience the highest prevalence of HIV-infected...
Decomposing body of patient found in ceiling of Durban hospital
A partly decomposed body found in the ceiling of the casualty ward of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Phoenix, Durban, on Friday of last...
Eastern Cape hospitals take a social media flogging
Social media video posts, painting an unflattering picture of conditions in two Eastern Cape Health hospitals, have gone viral, spurring the department to launch...
Opposition parties cheer departure of KZN Health MEC
The departure of Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC has been widely welcomed by opposition parties, while his promotion to the National Assembly has...
Sickly poor demonstrate at CTN private hospitals over NHI
Private hospitals and clinics in Cape Town found themselves dealing with a different kind of client recently when sickly and poor patients arrived to...