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Health Department plans medical strategy to tackle heroin crisis
The government is preparing to trial a medically-assisted treatment programme to help heroin users who want to quit the drug – this after long...
Survey shows HIV rates soaring in Mpumalanga
Nearly 900 000 people in Mpumalanga (or 17.4% of the population) are HIV positive, giving it the dubious title of province with the highest infection in the country, according...
Gauteng Health fails to spend budget millions – again
Underspending of budgets has critical implications, and Gauteng Health’s failure to spend more than R1.1bn of its 23/24 budget, when there are so many...
SA data track shows how pathogens spread and superbugs evolve
For the first time, researchers have been able to precisely quantify the ability of different pneumococcal strains to survive and reproduce, an insight that...
SA children’s suffering in poor areas worse during pandemic
Certain categories of South African children were profoundly affected during the pandemic, research has shown, with six out of 10 being exposed to depressed...
Outrage over medical parole for Zuma by outgoing Commissioner
Without having spent a day in a cell, former president Jacob Zuma has been granted medical parole, approved by National Commissioner of Correctional Services...
1 Military Hospital loses UN and AU accreditation
The Joint Standing Committee on Defence is “extremely concerned” by the R1bn of never ending repair and maintenance programme (Ramp) at 1 Military Hospital...
SAHPRA: Russian and Chinese vaccine authorisations a rigorous process
In the wake of continued political pressure from the Economic Freedom Fighters on the issue, the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has stressed...
Health DG Crisp: Forced vaccinations the ‘wrong approach’
South Africa's national Health Department wants mandatory vaccination in certain industries. But while jabbing was important, acting DG Nicholas Crisp said forcing vaccination by...
Health Minister: Vaccination card is ‘an incentive’ not a compulsory passport
The vaccination card, which the government doesn’t want referred to as a vaccination passport, will not deprive people of their basic human rights, Health...
Ramaphosa backs Deputy-President seeking medical care in Russia
President Cyril Ramaphosa has come out in support of his deputy David Mabuzaʼs decision to seek medical care in Russia, telling MPs it was...
Phaahla defends security group accused of liability for Charlotte Maxeke thefts
Health Minister Joe Phaahla is adamant the security company contracted to guard Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital could not be linked to the theft charges...
Concern about other serious diseases falling through the cracks in SA
WHILE South Africa grapples with high COVID infections, recording more than 83 000 deaths to date, deaths related to HIV/Aids, diabetes, and tuberculosis still...
M-Net documentary on the COVID frontline at Zuid-Afrikaans Hospital
A COVID-19 documentary being filmed at Zuid-Afrikaans Hospital, a non-profit hospital in Muckleneuk, Pretoria, will be broadcast on DStv's M-Net channel at 8.30pm on...
Noakes: The Wits dean of medicine ‘told a fib’ and ‘scored an own goal’
Following last week’s Twitter dispute between Wits University professor of vaccinology Dr Shabir Madhi and University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes, the...
COVID linked to year’s 43% surge in policyholders' death claims
Mortality claims statistics from the insurance industry show that more than a million policyholders died in the most recent one-year measurement period, which the...
Minister says SANDF ‘heads will roll’ over illegal Cuban COVID drugs
Newly appointed Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise has warned her army generals that “heads will roll” over the illegal purchase by the...
Make vaccinations mandatory, says retired ConCourt judge
Retired Constitutional Court justice Edwin Cameron, known for his gay rights and antiretroviral activism, told a webinar that “hard-core anti-vaxxers in South Africa are...
International call for South Africa to double its ‘sugar tax’
In what could be yet another blow to South Africaʼs struggling sugar industry and beverage companies, leading international scholars want SA to double its...
Gauteng Health whistleblower’s assassination was meticulously plotted
Seven men from KZN were arrested on Friday 27 August in connection with the meticulously plotted assassination of Gauteng Health whistleblower Babita Deokaran earlier...
Government uncertainty over mandatory vaccinations in SA
Mandatory COVID-19 jabs for specific groups are being discussed by the ministerial advisory committee on vaccines, says its chair, Prof Barry Schoub, reports Sunday...
'Second-guessing Zuma’s medical doctors unconstitutional’ — JGZ Foundation
The Jacob G Zuma Foundation has questioned the state’s decision to appoint a doctor to ascertain whether the former president is fit to stand...
Life Esidimeni: Search continues for 8 missing mental health patients
The Life Esidimeni saga has yet to be resolved, with Gauteng Health confirming that the search for eight missing patients is ongoing, reports News24.
The...
Discovery: Data show 80% of South Africans may have had COVID-19
As many as four out of five South Africans may have contracted COVID-19, indicating that the country may be one of the worldʼs hardest-hit...
More than 100 foreign-trained doctors take HPCSA to court over registration
More than 100 doctors trained overseas who have been blocked by the Health Professions Council (HPCSA) from practising in South Africa have launched urgent...
Acceptance of vaccines is increasing, especially among blacks
While vaccine acceptance has increased by five percentage points to 72%, with whites and younger people more hesitant, while acceptance has increased markedly among...
Decline in South Africa's vaccine rate is a ‘national emergency’
South Africa is facing a national emergency on top of the COVID-19 state of disaster as the vaccination pace slumps, the government admitted on...
Prison authorities: More surgery for Zuma; hospital discharge date unknown
Former president Jacob Zuma, who was taken from prison for an unknown “emergency surgical procedure” carried out on Saturday, will undergo further surgery “in...
Vosloo video: SAMA will not support doctors facing disinformation charges
The SA Medical Association will not support any medical practitioner facing charges of disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines in the aftermath of Cape Town heart...
Doctors anxious over backlogs following HPCSA's order on CPD
Some doctors have warned their regulator, the SA Health Profession’s Council (HPCSA), against creating an “administrative nightmare” that could potentially delay doctor registrations and...
Nestlé cancels contentious baby food webinar
Food and beverage conglomerate Nestlé has cancelled an online talk after health experts claimed that the company was flouting national regulations on advertising of...
Health campaigners want access to SA's vaccine contract with J&J
Activists have criticised Johnson & Johnson (J&J) after learning that some vaccines produced at the Aspen plant in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape were...
HPCSA boss suspended one day, unsuspended the next; wants legal costs paid
Newly appointed health minister Joe Phaahla has lifted the precautionary suspension of <strong>Health Professions Council of SA's</strong> registrar and CEO David Motau. Last Thursday...
SAMRC/UCT analysis: Pandemic deaths in South Africa approach 300,000
As well as almost 75,000 death directly attributed to the pandemic, most of the 222,000 excess deaths recorded over the past year are probably...
‘Not a single vaccinated person in COVID-19 high care ward’ — Groote Schuur doctor
As Western Cape hospital admissions increase amid the COVID-19 third wave, Dr Marc Mendelson has yet to see a vaccinated person develop COVID pneumonia,...
New CEO of HPCSA charged in R8.7m fraud and corruption case; now suspended
After barely two months at the helm of the Health Professions Council (HPCSA), the new CEO/Registrar, Dr David Motau (54), who formerly headed Free...
Cosatu warns employers against ‘no jab, no job’ policy
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has issued a warning to employers that “no employee should be dismissed” for refusing to take a...
Regulator supports medical scheme fee hikes over COVID-19 concerns
Despite the precarious financial state of many South Africans, industry regulator, the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), has issued a new guidance note saying...
Education ministry retreats from threats against teachers who won’t vaccinate
After initially threatening teachers who refused to be vaccinated with having to produce a full medical report or possibly facing redundancy or redeployment, the...
Nursing students reject deployment to vaccination sites
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) national student movement has rejected a directive by the health department to send third and fourth-year student...