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A 3-month jail sentence on the cards for those smoking in public
South Africans may be jailed up for up to three months for smoking in public – and employers for up to a year if...
Cuba-SA doctor programme downsized, 'not suspended'
After 22 years and billions of rand spent, the national Department of Health has taken a decision to downsize its Cuba-South Africa doctor programme,...
More than 1 in 4 of SA's listeriosis cases end in death
The deadly South African listeriosis outbreak has a high 28.6% fatality rate, according to a report by the National Listeria Incident Management Team (IMT)....
Nehawu and EFF 'rampage' at Jo'burg hospital, claims DA
Gauteng Health has condemned the ongoing acts of vandalism and disruption of services at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital during an unprotected strike.
News24 reports...
Cabinet places North West Health under administration after strike violence
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced on the eve of the long weekend that Cabinet had invoked Section 100 of the Constitution to place the...
SAMA slams surprise parliamentary visit to Khayelitsha Hospital
Parliament's select committee on petitions and executive undertakings has come under fire from the SA Medical Association (SAMA) for conducting an unannounced visit to...
Cuba/SA medical student programme a 'headache' – Motsoaledi
SA's massive programme for training medical students in Cuba‚ was so large that it had become a headache for both countries and a decision...
NW Health head suspended over Gupta-linked contract
North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo has suspended the Health Department's head, Dr Andrew Thabo Lekalakala, over a contract given to Gupta-linked healthcare company Mediosa....
Surge of complaints to SA"s health standards compliance office
The Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) has seen a surge in complaints to its consumer hotline in the wake of the Life Esidimeni...
Gauteng Health delays Esidimeni police investigation
Gauteng Community Safety MEC Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane has revealed that four out of the 46 Life Esidimeni inquest cases have not been finalised as the...
Bigger WHO team to boost SA's fight against listeriosis
South Africa's fight against the deadly listeriosis outbreak has received a shot in the arm the World Health Organisation (WHO) announcing it had increased...
SA drug makers may have to pay backlog fee to clear pipeline
South African drug makers may be asked to pay a "backlog fee" to help clear a pipeline of medicines waiting years for approval. Business...
Medical scheme members struggle to pay for mental illness
Many medical scheme members with mental illness are being forced to dig deep into their own pockets to foot their bills and are delaying...
Jhb clinic wins coveted international architecture award
A R23m South African health facility has won first prize in the Health Completed Buildings at the Berlin World Architecture Festival Awards. Bizcommunity reports...
Motsoaledi backs down: Primary cause of listeriosis still unknown
The cause of the world’s biggest listeriosis outbreak – which has killed more than 180 people and was blamed by Health Minister on infections...
Human rights violations at Eastern Cape mental hospital — SASOP
An investigation by the SA Society of Psychiatry (Sasop) into complaints against the management of Tower Hospital in Fort Beaufort has uncovered alleged human...
World TB Day: Worldwide treatment gains under threat in SA
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment gains worldwide are threatened in SA by the increasing trend in drug resistant-TB, says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).
Tuberculosis...
SA's poor fleeced to build Dubai hospital for the rich
The poor in North West Province and the Free State were fleeced to build a billion-dollar hospital for the rich in Dubai, in a...
Esidimeni victims' families to get R1.2m each
Retired deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke has ordered the state to pay the families of the victims of the Life Esidimeni tragedy R1.2m each....
Medication ATMs launched in SA: patient waiting times cut to under 3 minutes
A ground-breaking 'ATM pharmacy' that gives patients with chronic illnesses their repeat medication in under three minutes has been officially opened in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
The...
Foreign-trained students win first round against HPCSA
In the face of a threatened class action, the Deputy Minister of Health Mathume Phaahla has announced that the Health Professions Council of SA...
5 cases of human rabies — NICD warns on animal vaccination
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has warned animal owners to vaccinate their pets after at least five cases of human rabies were...
SA's stricter anti-smoking measures awaiting Cabinet approval
The SA Health Department is adopting stricter measures on smoking across the country and, reports Eyewitness News, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is calling for zero...
Med students join class action against HPCSA's accreditation policy
A growing number of medical students, parents, doctors and prominent legal figures have come out against a policy that makes it difficult for South...
Nurses disciplined for theft, patient assaults and fights
Most of the nurses who appeared before the SA Nursing Council last year were disciplined for theft. The Times reports that the other cases...
Returning doctors complain of 'unfair' HPCSA regulations
Hundreds of South African doctors who have studied medicine abroad fear their degrees could be rendered worthless because of 'unfair' regulations by the Health...
Psychiatrist using 'outdated' checklist faces HPCSA complaint
Use of the 'outdated' Novartis SA's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) checklist instead of the Conners Rating Scale has led to a complaint to...
Listeriosis death toll reaches 176
The death toll from an outbreak of the food-borne disease listeriosis in South Africa has more than doubled from previous numbers given in January,...
SAMA's attempt to disestablish trade union structure thwarted
The SA Medical Association's attempt to disestablish its trade union structure has been rejected at an extraordinary general meeting. SAMA's leadership called the meeting...
Budget 2018: Med scheme tax credits capped for NHI
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba has trimmed the tax credits taxpayers receive for their medical scheme contributions to raise an extra R4.2bn for National Health...
Discovery offers to partner with government on NHI
Discovery CEO Adrian Gore says he would welcome the opportunity to partner with the government in scaling some of the insurer’s healthcare innovations across...
HPCSA appeal on Noakes' not guilty verdict begins
The Health Professions Council of South Africa's (HPCSA) appeal against a not guilty verdict for Professor Tim Noakes, handed down by the council's disciplinary...
49 former Life Esidimeni patients still missing
Police have found eight more former patients from Life Esidimeni who were listed as missing by the Gauteng Health Department have been found, leaving...
Esidimeni final arguments: Putting a price on pain and suffering
The Esidimeni tragedy families will have to wait a month before they know the outcome of arbitration hearings. Polity reports that on Friday 9...
Listeriosis death rate running at 30%
The National Institute of Communicable Diseases says that the number of confirmed listeriosis cases is now 852 and 107 people have died, reports...
EFF to 'name and shame' SA's bad nurses and doctors
Bad nurses and doctors will be named and shamed by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as the red berets make the state of public...
Questions asked about Gupta-linked healthcare group
A Gupta-linked company received a R30m advance from the North West Health Department a day before it started operating its mobile clinic in the...
BHF: SA pharma industry can and must do better
The Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa (BHF) says there must be recognition that the pharma industry 'can and must do better', in...
Another 14 listeriosis deaths but source not yet found
Fourteen deaths in four days. That's what the National Institute of Communicable Diseases’ latest listeriosis outbreak report reveals. The Times reports that, according to...
Solidarity challenges Motsoaledi over community service for nurses
If the SA Health Department cannot comply with its statutory duty to places nurses for the community service year, it must exempt them, the...