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Rise in measles cases in KZN
There are 80 suspected cases of measles in KwaZulu-Natal that have been reported to health authorities‚ with 26 having been confirmed. The Times reports...
KZN Health must deliver Parliamentary timeline on solving its problems
KwaZulu-Natal Health has one month to give clear timelines toward resolving its many problems, Parliament's select committee on social services said. "The committee...
KZN Health negligence caused deafness in 123 TB patients – DA claim
KwaZulu-Natal Health woes appear to be worsening after the Democratic Alliance claimed negligence caused 123 tuberculosis to lose all hearing, reports News24.
DA MPL Dr Imraan...
302 employees probed in UKZN Med School scam
Investigations into an admissions scam at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) are still under way, with 302 staff potentially implicated.
A Daily News report says this...
Gauteng psychiatric care in a dire state
Gauteng is short of about 2,700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards, thus posing a threat...
Gauteng Health negligence crisis because of 'management problems'
The Gauteng Health Department is facing medical negligence claims worth over R2bn. JacarandaFM reports that this was revealed in the department's 2016/17 Annual Report...
KZN Health MEC blocked SAHRC probe illegally – DA
KZN Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo blocked the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) from conducting oversight visits during their probe into the province’s oncology...
Gauteng Health still owes billions to NHLS
Gauteng Health owes R2.58bn in total to the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS), and underpays about R64m every month for medical tests. According to...
Esidimeni officials receive over R1m while suspended on full pay
Two senior officials implicated in the transfers that led to the deaths of more than 100 Esidimeni patients have received R1.169m while suspended on...
Gauteng hospital contracts extended despite irregularities
Security contracts for Gauteng hospitals costing more than R500m have been extended for almost a year despite the fact that they were irregularly awarded,...
Wrongful incarceration case exposes Eastern Cape mental health crisis
The locking up of a teenage psychiatric patient at St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth instead of at Grahamstown’s Fort England Psychiatric Hospital has...
Ceiling collapses injured employees at two Gauteng hospitals
Two Gauteng Health employees suffered slight injuries after two separate ceilings collapsed at two provincial hospitals over the past week.
According to a MSN report, part...
Court orders North West's health workers back to work
North West’s health services are set to return to normal this week after public health workers fighting against ambulance privatisation were ordered to return...
UKZN bribe scandal med students 'must turn themselves in'
Students who bribed their way into the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) to study medicine and other health science courses have been told that they...
Another blow to Zungu's attempts to hold onto top KZN Health job
Attempts by Dr Sibongile Zungu, the former head of the KwaZuluNatal Health Department, to 'retain' that position have been dealt another blow as the...
Debt and patronage lay waste Gauteng's health budget
Gauteng Health's R40bn health budget is insufficient and the department cannot carry out the tasks it is required to do because of its sizeable...
Casualty is the worst for attacks on Gauteng hospital staff
Staff in Gauteng hospitals have been attacked 107 times since January last year, mostly by patients or their relatives.
This is revealed by Gauteng Health...
KZN Health MEC must be held accountable – IFP
Following an SA Medical Association march by hundreds of doctors and nurses protesting working conditions, the Inkatha Freedom Party has urged KwaZulu-Natal premier Willies...
Gauteng Health breached Esidimeni agreement – Motsoaledi
Gauteng Health was in breach of an agreement when it moved mentally ill Life Esidimeni patients to facilities offering an inferior service, said Health Minister...
Libyan doctors being used as 'cheap labour' in KZN
The KwaZulu-Natal Specialists Network has expressed 'huge concern' over the training of Libyan doctors as specialists, ahead of local doctors.
As a critical shortage of...
Gauteng Health assets offered to settle mounting negligence claims
Gauteng Health has had to offer some of its assets to the sheriff for attachment in a bid to settle mounting legal claims for...
Eastern Cape government misses frail care patients deadline
The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development has missed a court-ordered deadline to file affidavits on its plan to move patients from the Lorraine and...
Psychiatric patient transfer deadline extended to end of April
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and the Gauteng government have been given until the end of this month to complete the transfer of psychiatric patients to safe healthcare...
Unusual incidence of malaria in Limpopo
Limpopo Health says at least 46 cases of malaria have been reported in parts of province that normally do not have malaria mosquitoes.
The areas...
Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation lands huge Zimele project
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF), whose HIV Centre is based at the University of Cape Town (UCT), has been chosen to implement the...
KZN Health MEC fills in for striking mortuary staff
KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has cleared his schedule‚ is rolling up his sleeves and performing post-mortem examinations following 'disruptions' at the Park...
Gauteng Health investigates puzzling Pretoria malaria deaths
Gauteng Health is investigating the deaths of two Pretoria women from malaria, neither of whom had travelled in affected areas.
The Citizen reports that confirmation...
Maggot-ridden medical waste in Eastern Cape EMS stations
Filthy ambulances, a shortage of medical equipment and rundown bases found an investigation by The Herald into Eastern Cape Healthl Emergency Medical Services stations.
Storerooms and...
Hindu manager accused by hospital CEO of witchcraft – DOH to investigate
A Pietermaritzburg hospital operations manager was ordered to remove her Hindu deities from her work locker and accused by the CEO of witchcraft.
, is...
Banned Dutch doctor involved in another alleged 'botched surgery'
A Dutch doctor banned from surgery in Holland following two 'avoidable death's and who's botched at least two previous surgeries in KwaZulu-Natal, was last...
DA used PAI Act to flush out details of hospital serious adverse events
The opposition Democratic Alliance has had to use the Promotion of Access to Information Act to obtain the statistics of Serious Adverse Events at...
KZN Health may face administration as overspending rockets
With no money to pay new doctors or those working overtime, and state hospitals in chaos, KwaZulu-Natal Health is facing outside administration.
The Sunday Tribune...
KZN Health rejects patient's mistreatment claims
KwaZulu-Natal Health has poured cold water on claims made by a Pinetown man that he was mistreated in a state hospital in Durban, reports...
Public comment on draft strategy invited
South Africa's Department of Basic Education is inviting public comment on the draft strategy on HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections until 26 May.
Public sector lack of gynaecologists
A single private hospital in Johannesburg has more gynaecologists than all the state facilities in Mpumalanga and Limpopo combined.
Hospital standards regulations 'unworkable'
The SA Department of Health's draft regulations for hospital standards fail to take account of the differences between the public and private sector, and are unworkable in their current form, say industry sources.
Concern over Durban's 'bogus' abortion doctors
The IFP in KwaZulu-Natal is worried about the increase in the number of bogus doctors operating without licences after six male and one female foetuses were discovered in glass bottles filled with a brown fluid in an illegal dump site overrun with filth and rodents in Marianhill, west of Durban.
Eastern Cape to legislate on circumcision nursing
Traditional nurses could have to amass 10 years of experience with the circumcision rite before they are legally allowed to actively nurse initiates, if planned Eastern Cape legislation is passed.
Durban hospitals need toilet training
A Sunday Tribune investigation of Durban hospitals found that at four of the six, toilet facilities were either broken, dirty, or that there was no lavatory paper and/or hand washing facilities.
Gauteng targets 123 on corruption
Gauteng Health has taken disciplinary action against 123 employees suspected of corruption since MEC Qedani Mahlangu took office in May.