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Judge Moseneke: Gauteng Health triumvirate 'must testify'
Judge Dikgang Moseneke said the Life Esidimeni hearings into the deaths of more than 140 state psychiatric patients would not be completed until the three senior...
Gauteng Health's top brass pushed implementation of 'irrational' plan
While NGOs leaders will have to explain at the Life EsidImeni arbitration why more than 140 patients died under their watch, the former Gauteng...
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...
Gauteng psychiatric care in a dire state
Gauteng is short of about 2,700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards, thus posing a threat...
Social Development bid to appeal frail care ruling
The Department of Social Development has asked the Port Elizabeth High Court for permission to appeal against a ruling that it has to carry...
SA state psychiatric structure is failing – SASOP
While almost all the previous Life Esidimeni psychiatric patients have been transferred from the NGOs in Gauteng back into hospital, the psychiatric structure in...
Gauteng’s negligent medical ‘professionals' get off scot-free
Gauteng Health has paid out over R1bn since January 2015 to settle medical negligence, yet not a single disciplinary actionhas been taken against any...
More Gauteng psychiatric patient deaths but 'not due to neglect'
In the 79 days since the release of the Health Ombudsman’s report into the death of around 104 mentally ill patients in Gauteng 'not...
Psychiatric patient transfer deadline extended to end of April
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and the Gauteng government have been given until the end of this month to complete the transfer of psychiatric patients to safe healthcare...
Lack of funds has health departments struggling to fill posts
Financial problems are plaguing South Africa's health system, with the national Department of Health unable to hire sufficient nurses and doctors and the Gauteng...