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Gauteng student nurses protest over textbook non-delivery
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) in Gauteng is campaigning for student nurses at the Ann Latsky Nursing College in Johannesburg‚ where a...
`Meticulous' Gauteng Health issues licences to mental health NGOs
The Gauteng Health Department has issued 133 licences for the 2018/19 financial year to mental health NGOs that comply with the requirements of safe...
The bullying ways of Gauteng Health
'Severe liquidity challenges' at Gauteng Health has caused it to implement a plan that will supposedly settle all smaller confirmed invoices within 30 days,...
Family of 'strangled' Stellenbosch Hospital patient want answers
The family of a Zimbabwean man is demanding answers after he was found dead in a ward in Stellenbosch Provincial Hospital where he had...
'Astonishing discoveries' of fraud at KZN Health were reported on 3 years ago
The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) legislature’s health portfolio committee says it has made ‘astonishing discoveries’ of irregular expenditure, however, an eNCA report says some of these...
Ramaphosa's support for former Gauteng Health MEC criticised
President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended his recent widely criticised walk with former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu, on whose watch at least 144 mental...
Anger over Motsoaledi's visit to R180m Gupta-linked project
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo are in angry conflict after the Health minister inspected mobile clinics owned and...
Gauteng premier: 'I dip my head in shame' over Esidimeni
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has again apologised for the Life Esidimeni tragedy that happened under his watch and left at least 144 psychiatric patients...
North West ambulances sit idle while millions go to private companies
Almost 40 brand-new state ambulances have been parked in the sun for more than three months while the North West Health Department spends millions...
Provinces doing 'poor job' of licensing new private hospitals
Provincial health departments are doing such a poor job of issuing operating licences to private hospitals that they are stifling competition and potentially depriving...
Film on pressures faced by SA junior doctors goes global
The locally made film “Doc-U-Mentally” – which highlights the extreme pressures junior doctors face in South Africa – has been released globally via Amazon,...
Eastern Cape Health gets funds for thousands of critical posts
The Eastern Cape Health Department has set aside R300m to fill more than 1‚800 critical posts, according to a Daily Dispatch report. The positions...
Lack of money fuels new Limpopo healthcare protests
The Limpopo Health Department only recently emerged from four years under the administration by the national government. But, asks a Bhekisisa report, could history...
New Kimberley hospital: 10 years late, sixfold over cost
A decade behind schedule with a cost six times more than planned, the Kimberly Mental Hospital will finally be completed in March, reports Business...
Western Cape gears up for 'Day Zero' diseases
Hospitals in Cape Town are gearing up for the diseases Day Zero could bring, while private hospital groups are acting to ensure their own...
KZN Health MEC condemns 'destructive' taxi protest
KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has strongly condemned the taxi protest in Pietemaritzburg‚ which resulted in the burning of a departmental vehicle and...
Cape Town's Day Zero will not affect health facilities — Zille
Western Cape premier Helen Zille has assured residents of Cape Town that the water supply to public and private healthcare facilities will be maintained...
Paramedic in drunk driver blood-drawing fiasco
The allegedly irregular appointment of a paramedic to draw blood from suspected drunk drivers at Durban Metro Police roadblocks over the past 10 years...
KZN Health boss resigns over machine-repair probe
The head of KwaZulu-Natal’s Health Department Dr Sifiso Mtshali has resigned after being suspended by the premier Willies Mchunu, pending an investigation into the...
Dire state of health services in Mpumalanga and Limpopo
A shortage of key medical and administrative staff has put Mpumalanga’s 13 district hospitals in dire straits, according to a report from the provincial...
Western Cape emergency services under sustained attack
Western Cape emergency services remain under sustained criminal attack, with two incidents at the weekend.
Emergency medical crews are receiving counselling after being robbed while...
Patient dead in Addington toilet only found after 3 days
Medical staff at Durban’s Addington Hospital have been accused of gross negligence after the body of a patient, who allegedly committed suicide by hanging...
National Health report details grim state of KZN public hospitals
Four of the largest public hospitals in Durban are crumbling and lacking basic services such as access to water. News24 reports that the grim...
Free State orthopaedic services in 'a state of collapse'
Orthopaedic services in the Free State are in a state of collapse, with a surgery waiting list at Pelonomi Hospital of more than 130...
Cholera causes 2 deaths and 60 hospital admissions in Limpopo
Two children have died and about 60 were admitted to hospital after drinking contaminated water in the Sekhukhune area of Limpopo, reports The Times....
Waiting times for KZN cancer patients are 'criminal' – DA
Imran Keeka, Democratic Alliance KZN spokesperson on health writes in a report on the Politicsweb site: “The DA has been informed via a professional...
High-level intervention team to fix Gauteng Health
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has announced a high-level intervention team to co-ordinate a recovery plan for ailing Gauteng Health, reports The Times. Makhuru said...
Ekurhuleni and Jhb: Upsurge of attacks on EMS personnel
With the festive season on the doorstep, the City of Ekurhuleni has urged motorists and communities to co-operate with its disaster and emergency management...
5 North-West Health officials suspended over fraud allegations
The North-West Health has officially suspended, with immediate effect, five officials who allegedly defrauded the Klerksdorp/Tshepong hospital complex of more than R1.2m from May...
Sewage leak forces closure of JHB oncology unit
A sewage leak from a blocked pipe has flooded parts of the fourth floor at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital and forced the closure...
Breakdown of KZN mobile clinic system needs investigation — SACBC
The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has asked the SA Human Rights Commission to investigate the breakdown of mobile clinic systems in KwaZulu-Natal‚...
KZN Treasury wants staff audit of KZN Health
The Kwa-Zulu Natal Treasury wants KZN Health to conduct a headcount of its staff complement and an accounting of their daily duties. According to an IoL report,...
DA wants answers on Gauteng Health’s 'wasted' R500m
The Democratic Alliance's Shadow Health MEC in Gauteng is to quizz the provincial health department on why it spent R500m on a data storage...
PE doctors march against armed robbers targeting their surgeries
About 80 private doctors have protested in Port Elizabeth‚ demanding police action against armed robbers targeting their surgeries, reports The Times. The doctors said...
Questions remain over death of patient found in hospital ceiling
Father-of-six Teteteke Gqontsi did not die as a result of the surgery for which he was admitted at Stellenbosch Hospital, where his body was...
Treatment waiting times for KZN's cancer patients getting longer
KwaZulu-Natal cancer patients are now waiting nine months for treatment, says the SA Human Rights Commission.
Democratic Alliance spokesperson for health in KwaZulu-Natal Imran Keeka...
Storm-wrecked KZN hospitals repair bill close to R100m
Close to R100m will be spent on repairs to healthcare facilities in KwaZulu-Natal following last week's devastating storm. The Times reports that torrential rains...
KZN Health snubs NGO offer of free mobile mammography
An NGO has offered Kwazulu-Natal Health free use of its mobile mammography trucks to reduce the present six-month delay for breast cancer checks but...
Eastern Cape specialist units stand idle
Specialist units in the Eastern Cape are standing idle because hospitals lack the staff to operate the high-tech equipment, reports the Daily Despatch.
A frustrated...
MEC skips A-G's bad news report on KZN Health
The Auditor-General’s 2016/17 report on the state of KwaZulu-Natal Health backs up the opinion that the department is on the verge of total...