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Surgeons honoured for awake craniotomy on guitar-strumming musician
The removal of a brain tumour from a musician while he strummed his guitar on the operating table has earned two Durban neuro-surgeons top...
Investigation into disposal of limbs and dead foetuses at Charlotte Maxeke
An investigation at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital has revealed that there was no 'authorised practice' to dispose of limbs and dead foetuses in the...
Limpopo performs its first heart surgery in over 20 years
A Limpopo hospital has performed the first cardio-thoracic surgery in the province in 23 years - an indication, said the Health MEC, that public...
Durban hospital failures are just newspaper 'sensationalism’ — KZN Health
A Sunday Tribune report on the state of several Durban hospitals followed “unauthorised entry” by the newspaper and featured a “few isolated cases to...
DA wants Mpumalanga Health placed under administration
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for the Mpumalanga Health Department to be placed under administration after it recorded at least 29 new medical...
Public Protector rules KZN mortuaries guilty of improper conduct
The Public Protector has found government-run mortuaries in KwaZulu-Natal guilty of improper conduct relating to the management of human bodies at the facilities, reports...
Mass firing of management gets Limpopo hospital back on track
After the entire management team at Tshilidzini Hospital, Limpopo, was fired and replaced a month ago, the backlog of unclaimed bodies at the mortuary has...
198 newly-qualified Limpopo nurses still without a job
City Press reports that at least 198 community-service nurses in Limpopo find themselves unemployed for a second month, after completing their training.
The nurses claim...
DA barred from entering Bara during oversight visit
The Democratic Alliance (DA), was barred from entering the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Diepkloof on Wednesday of last week when attempting to conduct...
Western Cape doctor fired for sexual assault back as locum
A doctor fired by the Western Cape Health for sexually assaulting a nurse after giving her a date-rape drug was back at work this...
Johannesburg struggles under burden of undocumented patients — Mashaba
The Johannesburg Health is struggling to cope with the number of undocumented patients, who have tripled in number since 2016, attending its 81 clinics, says Mayor...
Doctors slam ‘unlawful’ appointment of junior doctors to top jobs
Senior doctors in Limpopo claim that Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba has ‘irregularly and unlawfully’ appointed inexperienced junior doctors to senior management posts based on...
Gauteng Health gets lion's share of provincial budget
In the Gauteng provincial budget of R132.4bn, R50.7bn will go to Health. Of this, R346m will be used to employ interns, R310m will be...
ANC protests against the ANC over Gauteng health budget
The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) and community members as well as the ANC joined a protest by hospital staff at the Chris...
Managers suspended for mismanaging expired medication
At least four managers have been suspended by the North West Health Department for allegedly mismanaging expired medication, reports The Times. "The North West...
Violence turning the Western Cape into a 'war-zone'
Violence is getting so intense in the Western Cape that trauma specialists are increasingly using "war-zone" medical strategies in their efforts to save lives,...
Mismanagement sees entire team removed from NHI pilot hospital
Shocking mismanagement at Tshilidzini Hospital has prompted Limpopo Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba to remove the facility's entire management team, Health e-News reports. The...
Cape Town nursing college students protest over safety issues
Students are protesting outside the Western Cape Nursing College in Klipfontein Road, Cape Town, attempting to bar management from entering the premises. Groundup reports...
DA claims healthcare collapsing in Free State and Eastern Cape
The healthcare system in the Free State province has collapsed, as evidenced by oversight inspections of the Alfred Nzula District Hospital in Trompsburg and the...
Nursing: Thousands trying to enter a 'saturated' jobs market
Thousands of prospective students in KwaZulu-Natal entered this year with the hope of pursuing their studies in nursing despite clear indications that the field...
PSA shocked over 'wrong people' in Limpopo Health jobs
The Public Servants Association of SA (PSA) has expressed shock at the statement by Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba that employees’ salaries take the...
Expanded registrar programme is for 'blacks only'
KwaZulu-Natal Health has expanded its registrar programme in 2019 from 314 to 414, but aimed to fill the 100 new posts only with black...
MEC condemns attack on hospital doctor by protestors
Eastern Cape Health MEC Helen Sauls-August has condemned an attack on a hospital doctor during an electricity-related protests by the Zithulele community in the...
Durban's health clinics are 'falling apart’ — SAMWU
Durban clinics operated by eThekwini Municipality are falling apart, prompting a municipal union to demand that the health facilities be transferred to the KwaZulu-Natal...
KZN doctor arrested for failed plot to murder doctor relative
An Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital neurosurgeon has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. According to a Sunday Tribune report, Dr Anand Rapiti, 43,...
State takes over administration of Eastern Cape mental health
The national government has taken over administration of the Eastern Cape’s mental health directorate. A Daily Dispatch report says this was after Health Minister...
Baby deaths triple at Gauteng hospital
With baby deaths tripling in a matter of months, Health-e News reports that staff at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg have turned to the...
UKZN spend on sale of med school places investigation hits R157m
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) will have spent R157m from January last year to the end of this year to investigate allegations that places...
Motsoaledi outrage over attacks targeting Limpopo doctors
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi suspects a syndicate is behind a series of criminal attacks on medical professionals and has reached out to police...
KZN mortuary strike: Corpses abandoned on ward floors
The current go-slow by KwaZulu-Natal mortuary workers means that patients who die in public hospitals are often tagged and left to lie on the...
Gauteng budget for Cuba student doctor programme questioned
The R81.5m budget allocation for the Cuba-South Africa Student Doctor Programme has come under fire in the Gauteng legislature, with Democratic Alliance (DA) health spokesperson...
Northern Cape pays R8.6m a year to store scrapped ambulances
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Northern Cape is calling on the MEC of Health, Fufe Makatong, to urgently scrap costly storage costs for...
Cancer meds shortages: What crisis? says KZN Health
A recent shortage of chemotherapy medication was not unique to KwaZulu-Natal and not the fault of the provincial health department. IoL reports that this...
Khayelitsha Hospital: 'Where people go to die'
It was the first hospital to be built in the Western Cape in 40 years, and dedicated to Cape Town’s largest township, the fastest-growing...
Gauteng hospital where 9 babies died admits to violating patients' rights
Management of the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Coronationville, Johannesburg, has conceded that it violated patients’ rights to quality healthcare after nine...
Limpopo care centre nurses sometimes 'use cellphones for lighting'
A Limpopo Health care centre is so ill-equipped that nurses at times have to use their cellphones for lighting because of a malfunctioning generator,...
High Court sets aside contentious KZN Health tender
A failed R2.5bn tender awarded to a finance company – which has caused a chronic shortage of essential medical equipment, including oncology machines, at...
Motsoaledi 'heartbroken' over hospital linen profiteering
National Health Department officials have found that aside from the Western Cape, provincial hospital suppliers had been marking up by as much as 48%...
NC Health in financial trouble, whistleblowers claim
Whistleblowers claim Northern Cape Health is in financial trouble, on the brink of more lawsuits and its service providers have downed tools in key...
Litigation brings Eastern Cape Health to the brink of collapse
Eastern Cape Health has been brought to the brink of collapse, with the Auditor-General raising serious concerns over its financial sustainability in its recently...