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Eastern Cape Health starts year owing billions in unpaid bills
The Eastern Cape Department of Health, which owes suppliers R4.8bn, is in an increasingly fragile financial position – with critics saying there is no...
Patient beaten to death by fellow psychiatric patient
A 36-year-old patient at Elizabeth Donkin Psychiatric Hospital in Gqeberha was smashed into a wall and badly beaten, later dying in hospital, after a...
Unlicensed NGO parades disabled patients in subsidy dispute protest
In a case reminiscent of the Life Esidimeni tragedy, another instance of the disdain shown to intellectually and physically disabled people has emerged in...
A deceptively busy year for health
This has been a busy year for healthcare in South Africa, writes Marcus Low in Spotlight, with several policy developments, landmark court cases, important...
Psychiatric patients in dire conditions at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital is in a state of crisis, with psychiatric patients being kept in untenable conditions – but insiders say other...
Pregnant woman found hanged in hospital
Incompetence and misplaced priorities are to blame for the death of a pregnant woman at Kopanong Provincial Hospital, the DA has said, slamming the...
Mental healthcare law challenge dismissed by ConCourt
The Constitutional Court has dismissed a challenge – by a civil rights group – to legislation governing the protection of mental healthcare patients, finding...
How independent is SA's new Health Ombudsman?
South Africa’s new Health Ombud took on his role this month as some health activists questioned his political allegiances with the ANC, his numerous...
'Dysfunctional and an embarrassment' – outgoing Ombudsman on health departments
In a blistering reflection of the public health sector after seven years in the job, outgoing Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba labelled the system...
New mental health policy welcomed, but long overdue, say experts
The long-awaited new National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2023-2030 took centre stage recently at the two-day SA Mental Health Conference in Johannesburg,...