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36 teen pregnancies, half HIV+, at a single Limpopo school
Limpopo Health reports that 36 pupils between the ages of 10 and 19 are pregnant and 31 pupils have been infected with HIV in the...
Gauteng nursing college closes after students kick out staff
An examination boycott at a Gauteng nursing college has resulted in the temporary closure of the institution by the provincial health department, says a...
Not a single Eastern Cape public hospital is safe — MEC
There is not a single public hospital in the Eastern Cape that has been inspected for safety, that has been deemed safe for patients...
Frere Hospital patient's 'lunchbox bedpan' goes viral
A bedridden patient who shared her humiliation on Facebook over being made to urinate in her lunchbox has forced authorities to act against nurses...
Gauteng Health racks up R1.7bn in irregular expenditure
Gauteng Health has once again come under fire for racking up R1.7bn in irregular expenditure as well as "disregarding the necessary controls to curb...
DA calls for action on 'dilapidated' North West hospital
The Democratic Alliance (DA) North West spokesperson on Health, Dr Tutu Faleni, has written to the North West Health MEC, Dr Magome Masike, following...
KZN Health urges vigilance after newborn baby abduction attempt
A vigilant Durban nurse foiled the attempted abduction of newborn babies and their mothers by two men posing as Home Affairs staff, reports The...
Medical team suspended after 9-year-old PMB child 'mistakenly' circumcised
A nine-year-old learner in Eastwood, Pietermaritzburg, was circumcised by “mistake” by a family health programme at his school which has resulted in the family...
Safer not to move new-born, despite klebsiella infection deaths
Doctors say it is safer to keep 52 new born babies in the neonatal intensive care units and maternity wards at the Thelle Mogoerane...
EC Health publishes tender to outsource mental health
Eastern Cape Health has published a R120m tender to outsource chronic mental healthcare in the province and has put emphasis on the reintegration of...
Not a single rape kit used in Eastern Cape because of 'shortage’
Police in the Eastern Cape have not used a single rape kit in the current financial year due to a “shortage”. The Times reports...
NICD reports on Gauteng's six Klebsiella pneumonia deaths
The Gauteng Health Department says an interim report revealed that "extreme overcrowding" played a major factor in the spreading of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria Klebsiella...
Five babies die from antibiotic-resistant infection in Gauteng hospital
Five babies have now died from antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus in Ekurhuleni as the hospital shuts down wards and...
Traditional healers want to be able to issue sick notes
Traditional healers in the Eastern Cape have appealed to the national Health Department to create a document that will serve as an equivalent to...
EC hospital white staff allege discrimination, abuse and hate speech
A group of 27 white health and administration staff at the Eastern Cape’s premier psychiatric hospital, Fort England in Grahamstown, claim they are victims...
700 mental patients at risk with E Cape facility facing closure
Seven hundred mental patients in the Eastern Cape are at risk‚ with the Life Esidimeni facility in Kirkwood facing closure after its contract was...
Bara workers end strike after acting CEO goes on 'special leave'
Gauteng Health said a strike by general workers at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto was over. Business Day reports that the end...
Plans for R1.3bn rebuild of Gauteng hospital criticised
Not only will the Gauteng Infrastructure Development Department spend R127m to demolish the derelict Kempton Park Hospital, formerly known as Khayalami, they are planning...
R1bn debt burden drives Mpumalanga Health to the brink
Mpumalanga’s public health system is teetering on the brink of collapse, and with debts from previous financial years having accrued to about R1bn, the...
Dead wrong: Gauteng woman found alive in mortuary fridge
Declared dead by paramedica after a car accident‚ a Gauteng woman was discovered alive inside a mortuary fridge by forensic officers, reports The Times....
KZN gets its first private traditional hospital
A traditional healer from Ingwavuma in northern KwaZulu-Natal has made history by forming a private hospital in Bhambanana area at Mhlabuyalingana, reports Health-e News....
Gauteng Health admits to 'critical' shortage of nurses
Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa has disclosed that the Gauteng Health Department is facing a “critical shortage of skilled nursing personnel”. The Citizen reports...
Suspended NW Health head signed contract 'against legal advice'
The suspended head of North West Health, Thabo Lekalakala, signed the controversial three-year R180m mobile clinic contract with Gupta-linked company Mediosa three days after...
Hawks swoop on 6 fake doctors in Western Cape
Six people have been arrested in theWestern Cape for allegedly practising without valid licences, the Hawks said in an IOL report. Hawks spokesperson Brigadier...
Traditional healers to take on quacks over bogus cures
Traditional healers in North West gathered in Rustenburg over two days to come up with laws to regulate their practices. According to an IoL...
Union says Gauteng Health was warned about 'impatience’
The violent protests by health workers at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital were unexpected according to Gauteng Health administrators but union leaders said that they had warned about...
Free State Health: Salary bill up, vacancies high
Free State Health's steadily increasing salary bill is crowding out spending on goods and services, Business Day reports that Parliament heard. This means there...
Health MEC defends remark about 'black people's disease'
Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba has defended a comment she made about HIV being a black people’s disease, saying it was taken out of...
KZN Health announces end of oncology crisis at Addington
KwaZulu-Natal’s Health MEC, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has announced that oncology services have been completely restored at Durban’s Addington Hospital, reports The Citizen. Dhlomo said...
Corpse left for rats to feed on in KZN hospital
When Bonokuhle Khali died in Nkonjeni District Hospital in Zululand, nurses left his body in a dimly lit corner in the male ward where...
Health MEC faces Equality Court charges over 'black people's disease'
HIV and tuberculosis patients in Limpopo have taken Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba to the Equality Court for discrimination, hate speech and incitement after she...
Cancer services failing throughout SA
Only one radiation oncologist is left to treat cancer patients in North West, reports Bhekisisa , meaning the sole specialist is theoretically responsible for the treatment...
DA joins union chorus calling for KZN Health MEC to go
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has urged KwaZulu-Natal premier Willies Mchunu to heed the rising call of unions in the province to fire health MEC...
Eastern Cape doctor arrested by Hawks for fake sick notes
A medical doctor and her assistant from East London in the Eastern Cape have been arrested allegedly for issuing fake medical certificates to patients....
Woman dies after 7-week wait for treatment of leg fracture
The Democratic Alliance (DA) wants the Health Ombudsman, Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, urgently to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of 48-year old,...
Gauteng cancer patients 'dying waiting for treatment'
Cancer patients in Gauteng die while waiting for radiation treatment and the delays mean any intervention already made is rendered useless, reports the Sunday...
KZN Health oncology: 'It's not a Ferrari but it works…'
Appearing briefly before the Human Rights Commission, the KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC said that the problems that caused the present oncology crisis predated his time...
Human Rights Commission wants full investigation into Tembisa Hospital
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it has found that while there has been a violation of human rights at the Tembisa Hospital,...
North West crisis a 'silent killer' say doctors
Distressed and disillusioned doctors in the North West Province are calling the province’s current crisis in healthcare a silent killer, says a City Press...
KZN Health MEC must account to human rights body over oncology crisis
The head of the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department, MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has been issued with a notice to appear before the South African Human Rights...