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NICD releases increased malaria risk advisory
The SA National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) released an advisory on increased malaria risk in three provinces earlier December, with travellers advised to...
Most allocated jobs but junior doctors bemoan lack of planning
Junior doctors have blamed government’s lack of planning for the emotional roller coaster they faced about starting their compulsory community service this month, reports...
Medical unions warn of court action over student placement promises
Medical unions have sent a clear warning to the Department of Health: ensure medical students secure internships and community service posts next year, or...
Usage of day-hospitals is growing
Day-hospital group Advanced Health’s share price leapt after it said that 45% more patients were admitted at its hospitals in November than in the...
DoH attempting to close drug-marker incentivising loopholes
The SA Department of Health has revived its attempt to close legal loopholes which it says allows drug makers to incentivise pharmacies and medical...
Final-year SA med students can appeal placements
The SA Health Department says that final-year medical and health students will be allowed to appeal their placement allocations.
According to an Eyewitness News report,...
Medical care suffering as the taps run dry
The running out of water in the Western Cape because of drought and in southern KwaZulu-Natal because of alleged sabotage of municipal facilities, has...
Testimony on the grim state of mental healthcare in SA
Psychiatrist Dr Lesley Robertson painted a grim picture of the state of mental healthcare in SA, in testimony before the SA Human Rights Commission.
“We...
Mahlangu denies ignoring request to appear at hearing
Former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu has criticised 'false' media reports about her avoiding a subpoena to appear before the Esidimeni arbitration hearing.
Former Gauteng...
Boy dies after ambulance is attacked and delayed
An eight-year-old boy has died after the ambulance he was being transported in came under attack on the N2 highway, reports Eyewitness News. The...
UK university dumps ex-Health MEC over Life Esidimeni
The University of Bedfordshire has suspended former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu from her studies 'given the severity of the allegations’ against her at...
Billions of rands to fill posts based on ‘wrong’ organograms – Motsoaledi
It would take R10.6bn to fill the 38,000 vacant posts in the public health sector at the end of September. Business Day reports that...
Budget: NHI funding on hold as Gigaba goes to tax committee
The National Treasury has delayed plans to set up a National Health Insurance (NHI) fund, saying it wants advice from the Davis tax committee...
Discovery claims analysis: What kills you, where in SA
If you are in KwaZulu-Natal you are more likely to die of heart-related conditions‚ but if you live in Cape Town, cancer is more...
6 bogus JHB doctors arrested in driver certificate raid
Six suspected bogus doctors have been arrested in the Johannesburg city centre‚ in connection with health certificates issued to unfit drivers, reports The Times....
NICD alert: One death due to Odyssean malaria in Pretoria
Unusual malaria cases, affecting persons with no recent history of travel to malaria transmission areas, have been reported in Kilner Park, Pretoria (four patients),...
Sudden deficit means NHLS may no longer be a 'going concern'
The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) received a qualified audit for 2016-17 after its auditors, SizweNtsalubaGobodo, highlighted irregular expenditure of more than R1bn and...
12-years prison for robbing EMS worker of cellphone
Western Cape community safety MEC Dan Plato has welcomed a 'hefty' prison sentence handed down to a man involved in robbing an Emergency Medical...
NHLS irregular expenditure increases by almost R1bn in a year
According to the National Health Laboratory Service's (NHLS) Annual Report, irregular expenditure increased by R990m in just one year, says Democratic Alliance shadow minister...
Psychiatrist battles MCC over a missing rubber stamp
The failure of the SA Medicines Control Council to put an official stamp on a licence it has already approved, has prevented a Gauteng...
Hawks investigate faked Pretoria Forensic Lab results
A forensic analyst at the Pretoria Forensic Laboratory may have been reporting fictitious drug and toxin results for years, potentially putting hundreds of criminal...
As measles spreads, Motsoaledi slams religious anti-vaxxers
South Africa’s health minister has slammed parents who won't vaccinate their children‚ especially in communities that reject the measles vaccine because it contains gelatine...
Landmark UNAIDS pricing deal to accelerate HIV treatment
Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health, says a landmark pricing deal announced by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), will accelerate the...
Motsoaledi bemoans lack of control over provincial health departments
South Africa’s Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says he has "zero authority" to improve the functioning of troubled state hospitals, which are all managed by...
Controversy over Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital funding
It took R1bn in donations to build the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital in Johannesburg, but nine months after its launch party, the world-class facility...
Concerns over new SANAC chief's controversial past
Activists have expressed concern over the appointment of Dr Sandile Buthelezi as the new CEO of the SA National AIDS Council, given his involvement in...
Row over Oxford TB vaccine trial on SA babies
Oxford University is embroiled in an ethics row after scientists were accused of questionable conduct over a controversial trial of a new vaccine on...
Cosatu opposition to private healthcare 'will scupper NHI'
Cosatu’s opposition to the private sector having a role in the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) could fundamentally scupper the achievement of universal...
Support for sugar tax grows, as govt delays to 2018
Three out of four South African adults are supportive of government’s efforts to enforce policies that will discourage people from consuming sugary drinks and...
Ditching medical aid tax credits will burden state health system
Government’s plan to ditch medical aid tax credits is expected to force nearly 2m people into the already overcrowded state health system. If the...
Following uproar, Aids denialist declines nomination to SANAC
Controversial talk show host Criselda Kananda-Dudumashe will not serve on the board of the South African National Aids Council (SANAC), after she declined her...
'Lemon and garlic' proponent headed for Sanac board?
Controversial for defending a woman bashing cabinet minister and undermining ARVs, talk show host Criselda Kananda-Dudumashe is apparently heading for a position on the SA...
Proposed sugar tax nearer after Nedlac negotiations
The proposed tax on sugary drinks is likely to go ahead later this year, following negotiations between government, labour and industry at the National...
Medical-device manufacturers scrambling for SA licences
Medical-device manufacturers, importers and distributors are scrambling to apply for licences with the Medicines Control Council (MCC) as it takes a step closer to...
DoH adjusts SA public hospital means test
The SA Department of Health has adjusted the means test used to determine who is eligible for free or discounted fees at public hospitals,...
Doctor arrested for drug dealing in SAPS sting
A 35-year-old doctor based at Elim Hospital in Limpopo has appeared in court facing charges of drug dealing after he was arrested during a...
Durban hospital's managers get bodyguards after death threats
Top managers at a Durban hospital, where the labour relations manager was shot last month during the course of a corruption probe, turned up for...
Ground-breaking surgery on prem baby at Tygerberg
A pulmonary balloon dilation on a premature baby was carried out at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town for the first time in SA, reports The Times.
When...
SA's private hospitals ranked by patients
South Africa’s top 20 private hospitals, ranked by Discovery Health patients based on their experiences, have been announced, reports The Times. The hospitals rated...
SA minority are 'fighting tooth and nail against the NHI revolution'
Apartheid built healthcare inequalities. It is up to the National Health Insurance (NHI) to dismantle them, writes South Africa’s Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi in...