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R17bn outstanding for medical negligence made up 'generally' of fraudulent claims — EC Health
Eastern Cape Health claims that unscrupulous lawyers are milking the province, with outstanding medical negligence claims now standing at R17bn, with much of this...
Drive to improve oversight of Western Cape mental health facilities
A drive to license all mental health facilities housing more than four patients is underway in the Western Cape to ensure that provincial health...
Ramaphosa's support for former Gauteng Health MEC criticised
President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended his recent widely criticised walk with former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu, on whose watch at least 144 mental...
Over 5m treated by Gauteng Health in 2017
A total of over 5m patients visited various Gauteng health facilities from the first quarter of the 2017/18 financial year to the third quarter...
SA’s ‘worst human rights failure since apartheid'
It has been called a tragedy. A calamity. A scandal. But, says a Bhekisisa report, the Life Esidimeni debacle was no accident, no rash...
Gauteng Health ducks and dives on higher death toll and more missing patients
Gauteng Health is trying to evade responsibility for verifying the deaths of 12 additional people names by activists as perishing in the Life Esidimeni...
Suspended head of Gauteng Health resigns
The suspended head of the Gauteng Health Department, Dr Barney Selebano, has resigned in the wake of the Esidimeni tragedy that claimed more than...
What a horrifying scandal reveals about a rotting SA
South Africa is one of the continent’s richest and most advanced countries. But, writes the Economist, the Esidimeni mental-health scandal illustrates its government’s deepest...
SA's thorny health issues carried over into 2018
As the year begins, it’s common for individuals, companies and government departments to have a few things on their list of things to do....
Free State nurse named the most caring in SA
Angelina Vermeulen from the Free State was named the country's most caring nurse at the recent annual Marilyn Lahana Trust Caring Awards hosted by...