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Gauteng partners with private sector to reduce cancer backlog
Although the Gauteng Department of Health’s budget has been decreased by 2% for the 2023/34 year, shrinking from R61bn last year to R60bn, a...
Imposter radiologist's case postponed
A Gqeberha woman who falsified her radiology qualification, working at Livingstone Hospital for six months before it was uncovered, appeared briefly in the Specialised...
EC Health Department ordered to pay overdue bills for orthopaedic implants
A crisis has been temporarily averted at Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha, where orthopaedic implants supplied by Johnson & Johnson were halted last week after...
Audit explains Eastern Cape’s devastatingly high COVID death toll
Eastern Cape Health has effectively collapsed, reports Daily Maverick. Its accounts are overdrawn by R979m and it’s facing medico-legal claims of more than R40bn,...
South Africa's health sector in the 2022 budget
Despite a commodities-fuelled revenue bonanza of R182bn and the winding down of COVID-29 related expenditure, Health expenditure increased only marginally, reports MedicalBrief. The lack...
Spotlight investigation: Gqeberha patients must endure soiled linen
While the provision of clean linen is a widespread problem in Nelson Mandela Bay hospitals, at Livingstone Hospital it’s reached “nightmare” proportions, with patients...
Protector’s ‘peculiar’ order on medical-negligence legislation
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has again dived headfirst into constitutionally murky waters, instructing the government to “within 90 days” act to finalise the controversial...
DA: Eastern Cape Health urgently needs assistance from other government departments
The stark reality of how exhausted our healthcare workers really are was brought home in an emotional oversight visit to Livingstone and the Port...
Eastern Cape blames negligence payouts for failure to fill specialist posts
Most specialist posts at two of the Eastern Cape’s biggest hospitals remain vacant after the provincial health department failed to fill them. According to...
Specialist vacancy rate in the Eastern Cape close to 50%
Eastern Cape Health MEC, Nomakhosazana Meth, admitted to the provincial legislature that specialist units had a vacancy rate of close to 50% – but...