June 23rd, 2021The infant death rate at Dora Nginza Hospital in Zwide, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), has skyrocketed since 2020 as crippling staff and equipment shortages are left...
July 15th, 2020Are they "glorified wheelbarrows" or an "extremely innovative" solution to providing health services in the remotest parts of the Eastern Cape?
Controversy has been...
A Wits University’s medical school probe into allegations that black medical students falsified their portfolio marks has been met with racism claims, reports City...Weekly Roundup
The RK Khan Hospital board has hit back at what it described as a “surprise, overnight decision” by KwaZulu-Natal Health to redeploy the institution’s CEO, reports...South Africa
March 20th, 2019Rights to dignity and ‘security in and control over their body’, both entrenched in the Bill of Rights, clearly provide a basis for the acceptance of euthanasia,...
The current go-slow by KwaZulu-Natal mortuary workers means that patients who die in public hospitals are often tagged and left to lie on the floor in wards,...SA Provincial Health
A failed R2.5bn tender awarded to a finance company – which has caused a chronic shortage of essential medical equipment, including oncology machines, at...
October 3rd, 2018“Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is not just a health issue, it’s a societal issue – it involves all of us,” said Ian Wakefield, BD Africa country manager,...
Doctors say it is safer to keep 52 new born babies in the neonatal intensive care units and maternity wards at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus – where six...
