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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...
Black pharmaceutical industry wants 30% of tenders, it tells NHI hearing in Parliament
The National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has failed to tackle transformation in the pharmaceutical sector, an association for black-owned pharmaceutical businesses told Parliament, reports...
Fear of public hospitals may be a cause of buoyant membership for Discovery and Medscheme
Discovery Health and Medscheme, contrary to market expectations given poor economic conditions and the trend at many other medical aids, are reporting membership growth...
South African surgical first by UCT Private Academic Hospital and Groote Schuur
While brachytherapy has been used previously as a treatment for eye tumours, a collaboration between UCT Private Academic Hospital and Groote Schuur Hospital has...
Unrest abates but effects on health care will be far reaching
While the violence and looting that wracked KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng last week has abated, the health effects are likely to be far...
Durban Obs Gynae asks judge for mercy towards assaulter
A woman medical doctor, who was assaulted and badly injured by a dead patient’s brother in a Durban hospital in front of patients and staff,...
Biovac’s Cape Town to pump out millions of Pfizer vaccines for Africa
Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine will soon be partly produced in Cape Town for African countries, reports TimesLIVE.
The US pharmaceutical giant and BioNTech have reached an...
R10,000 fine following abdominal hysterectomy — HPCSA’s April-July 2021 disciplinaries
A medical practitioner found guilty of unprofessional conduct after being charged with performing an abdominal hysterectomy incompetently and without patient’s consent was fined R10,000,...
Education MEC Lesufi apologises for promoting ‘miracle’ herbal cure for COVID
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has apologised after a video on local social media showed him promoting as “miracle” cure for COVID-19 a traditional...
Black doctors complain to HRC over Colleges of Medicine exams
Black doctors have lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) against the Colleges of Medicine of SA, the body tasked by the...
COVID-19: ‘Totally inept’ government should concentrate on first doses
The government's “total ineptitude” came under fire, with from eminent vaccine and infectious diseases experts Prof Shabir Madhi of Wits University calling on the...
Scopa told that Ramaphosa wants ‘more information’ on Digital Vibes
The Presidency has asked the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) for further information on its Digital Vibes investigation that led to Health Minister Dr Zweli...
Delta variant dominates Gauteng and is spreading to rest of SA
The highly contagious Delta variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus is the driving force behind the large increase in COVID-19 cases in Gauteng and is...
‘Extreme concern’ over EFF threats against SAHPRA
Threats by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) against the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) unless it immediately approved the use of the Russia’s Sputnik V...
SANDF’s military hospitals now ‘in intensive care’
The SA National Defence Force’s military hospitals have fallen into disrepair, mired in mismanagement, waste and possible corruption amounting to billions of rands, reports...
Gauteng Health too broke to fight third wave
Gauteng Health’s efforts to stem the COVID-19 third wave are being thwarted by a cash crunch, with government calling on the private sector to help,...
Decuplets a 'journalistic error', says health department
The national health department has broken its silence on the alleged birth of decuplets, describing Independent Media's allegations as “a journalistic error”. Gauteng Health...
SA scrambles to ease vaccine supply crunch following J&J setback
With the country officially having entered the third wave, South Africa is looking to accessing the Chinese and Russian vaccines and Aspen is moving...
Provinces rack up at least R23bn in irregular Health expenditure
Most of South Africa’s provincial health departments irregular expenditure has shot up, with little or no attempt to rectify matters through the cancellation of...
Covid-19 looting: SIU targets Durban doctors' medical web
A Special Investigations Unit (SIU) partial audit of the billions of rands the government spent fighting Covid-19, has implicated two Durban doctors and their web...
Digital Vibes corruption: Mkhize's 'special leave' may be permanent
In response to growing pressure, both from within the African National Congress and the public, President Cyril Ramaphosa this week placed minister of health...
Forensic investigation into 'rot' at Compensation Fund
Employment & Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi says forensic investigators will be appointed by the end of June to get to the bottom of the...
Magashule: ‘Denialist' Mbeki should be prosecuted for AIDS deaths
Suspended secretary-general of the ANC, Ace Magashule, has accused former President Thabo Mbeki for being an AIDS denialist and suggests that he should be...
Scooter ambulance tender unlawful; Premier's adviser faces disciplinary action
The R10.1m scooter ambulance tender awarded by Eastern Cape Health to Fabkomp has been declared unlawful by the Special Tribunal and the provincial premier's...