July 21st, 2021On Monday an inquest began into the deaths of 144 mental health patients after they were discharged from Life Esidimeni into communities more than five years ago. Julia...
September 16th, 2020While South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown may have saved 16,000 lives by end December, its profound impairment of general healthcare meant slashed access to drugs and...
September 16th, 2020Convincing a corruption-embattled population to trust a centralised and procurement-based National Health Insurance (NHI) system becomes more difficult with each graft...
September 16th, 2020Two veterans of South African healthcare politics and delivery have locked horns over the country’s early, hard COVID-19 lockdown, with the one accusing government of...
Monies stolen from the state by unscrupulous companies and individuals by inflating the prices of personal protective equipment (PPE) will be recovered. Polity reports...
August 5th, 2020President Cyril Ramaphosa's administration is scrambling to deal with a wave of national outrage over evidence of billions of rands of corruption and looting of COVID-19...
The controversial "precautionary suspension" of one of North West Health’s senior clinicians two weeks ago has been lifted, with Professor Ebrahim Variava returning to...Weekly Roundup
Thuthukile Mbatha, a researcher and Tendai Mafuma legal researcher at Section27 write in a Spotlight report that over the past few weeks, South Africa has taken several...Weekly Roundup
Staff shortages have forced the Eastern Cape Health to almost halve the number of state ambulances on the road, reports News24. For years, state ambulances in the...
December 11th, 2019The dominant narrative of "medical xenophobia" by SA health professionals against refugees and migrants is misleading, writes Kudakwashe Vanyoro of the University of the...
