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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...
Gauteng recorded only 42% of estimated Covid-19 deaths
Gauteng Health says that it has recorded only about 42% (10,770) of the excess deaths figure estimated by the SA Medical Research Council (SAMRC),...
Pharmacists concerned over 'limited dialogue' on NHI Bill
Pharmacists have raised concern over the government's ‘limited dialogues’ with them on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, reports News24.
During parliamentary public hearings on...
Workplaces join vaccination rollout effort
Business, labour and the government have reached agreement at Nedlac on workplace Covid-19 vaccine guidelines to ensure workers are encouraged to be vaccinated, and...
Ramaphosa on alcohol ban concerns: Don't talk to me. Talk to Nedlac
President Cyril Ramaphosa has referred to Nedlac the liquor industry concerns over another possible ban on alcohol sales as COVID-19 cases increase, writes MedicalBrief.
Industry...
Vaccine cheats try to game the vaccination registration system
The team at the Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS) has been spending hours trying to stop South Africans younger than 60 — who keep...
Support from Wits study for high seroprevalence in SA
In some part of Gauteng, up to 43% of the population already has COVID-19 antibodies, according to a study by Wits University vaccinologist Prof...
Sanofi/GSK trials boosts vaccine hopes; turns to SA variant
Sanofi/GlaxoSmithKline's potential COVID-19 vaccine triggered strong immune responses in all adult age groups in preliminary trials, writes <strongMedicalBrief. New trials will test the vaccine...
Police minister apologises as Forensic Lab backlog grows
Police Minister Bheki Cele has apologised in the National Assembly for the backlog of more than 200 000 outstanding DNA results in the state...
SIU probe into fraudulent PPE contracts now exceeds R14bn
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is investigating allegations regarding the irregular procurement of COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) with a contract value of R14.2bn...
Clicks buys Pick n Pay's retail pharmacy business
In a deal that still requires regulatory approval, Clicks is buying Pick n Pay’s retail pharmacy business as it accelerates the expansion of its...
SA's stop-start vaccine roll-out has increased hesitancy — Nids-Cram Survey
South Africa's stop-start vaccination roll-out, coupled with miscommunication and fear fuelled by reports of blood clots and other side effects has had the insidious...
Mkhize said to have warned provinces over third wave
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has warned provinces that the country is, in essence, in the third wave of COVID-19, reports News24, citing "government...
J&J roll-out falters again despite SAHPRA clearing jab for pregnant women
While health regulator SAHPRA has given pregnant and breastfeeding women the green light to receive the Johnson & Johnson jab, the vaccine's rollout has...
As SA tests for Indian variant, MAC members said to want tighter border controls
South Africa is testing for the COVID-19 strain from India, following at least 28 cases on two vessels in ports and three air passengers...
Provinces to pay another R45m for Cuban students following currency ‘miscalculation'
Following a foreign exchange miscalculation, provincial health departments have been instructed by the National Department of Health to kick in another R45m to the R122m...
CMS backs patients' rights to independent healthcare providers
The Council for Medical Schemes has banned the imposition of excessive co-payments on patients who choose health-care providers outside the designated service providers (DSPs)...
Mkhize: Pfizer backs down over 'unreasonable demands'
Pfizer has backed down over its controversial demand that the South African government put up sovereign assets guaranteeing an indemnity against the cost of...