More than 100 doctors trained overseas who have been blocked by the Health Professions Council (HPCSA) from practising in South Africa have launched urgent court...South Africa
A medical practitioner found guilty of unprofessional conduct after being charged with performing an abdominal hysterectomy incompetently and without patient’s consent...
May 19th, 2021State looting has been disastrous for South Africa in many ways, both practical and philosophical, writes William Saunderson-Meyer in the Jaundiced Eye column. But there...
August 12th, 2020The Council of Medical Schemes has lost its second leader in months to COVID-19, following the death of Professor Lungile Pepeta on Friday, 7 August.
Higher...
February 12th, 2020
A vindictive, protracted and costly campaign by Western Cape Health against three young doctors for “unlawfully removing two blue chairs with the intent to...
June 5th, 2019
The Motsoaledi years can broadly be judged on two fronts, the response to the HIV epidemic and the functioning of the public healthcare system and its related...
August 29th, 2018
Findings by Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba that whistleblower claims of unacceptable practices at the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in the Eastern Cape...
August 8th, 2018More than 20‚000 patients have been harmed at state hospitals in Gauteng in the space of two-and-a-half years, according to official statistics. Chris Hani...
July 6th, 2016A Port Elizabeth state doctor who employed unqualified foreign medical students as 'clones' to stand in for him in a network of bogus practices he had set up, has died...
Euthanasia campaigner Sean Davison – who sparked controversy after he allegedly assisted his mother and others to end their lives – is currently working with...
