Uncertainty over whether the Hout Bay CDC which caters to about 4,500 patients a month is opening or closing has caused many Hangberg residents to panic and fear not...Weekly Roundup
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku is hoping the deployment of new CEOs to take charge of various state hospitals will help improve services as well as the facilities'...
November 13th, 2019
Ignoring my mentors' warnings against getting close to my patients was not just me bucking against authority, but a more humanistic way to approach patient care,...
“Patients are dying on hospital benches while hundreds of nurses are unemployed,” says Nonhlanhla Mazibuko. According to a Groundup report, she was one of over 200...Weekly Roundup
A total of 592 inmates in Namibian prisons are living with HIV out of a population of 4 561. The Namibian reports that this was revealed by Namibian Correctional...Weekly Roundup
Hospitals in the UK are being forced to deploy CCTV and separate rival gangs in their efforts to combat a nationwide drug epidemic which sees class A substances openly...Weekly Roundup
Google has gained access to a huge trove of US patient data – without the need to notify those patients – thanks to a deal with a major health firm. BBC News...Weekly Roundup
The National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH) in South Africa, through its epidemiology and surveillance section, has initiated a national surveillance...South Africa
National Health Department director-general Malebona Precious Matsoso, who last year complained that she had been "completely sidelined" over the NHI Bill, by has left...Africa
South Africa’s neighbours, Lesotho and Namibia, have been hit by disease outbreaks, says a Cape Times report. Lesotho has reported measles in the Qacha’s Nek...
