The decomposed body of a man was discovered in the ceiling of a hospital in Durban on Friday. The gruesome discovery was made by members of Search and Rescue, the Durban K9 unit and police officials who were called out to the trauma unit of the Mahatma Gandhi hospital in Phoenix, south of Durban. Police..
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Durban hospital:- Man’s decomposed body found in ceiling
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Enough of Staats Hospitals / Clinics’ pathetic service
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I am posting this out of pure frustration and desperation! We all know that It is an open secret that SA government health services, especially hospitals, are, to say the least in a poor state!! We know that we are pretty much doomed without expensive medical aid, but this just takes the cake. Who to..
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WARNING: Elderly man recovering at home after alleged hospital assault (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
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An 87-year-old man’s family has taken to social media after he was allegedly injured and bruised by staff at the Tshwane District hospital. “He is doing okay. He is in pain, and a bit confused and tired after the whole ordeal,” said Johnny Coetzee’s grandson, Gerhard Höll. “This is the second attack on my grandfather..
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Gauteng Health MEC Dismisses Claims Of Essential Medicine Shortages At Hospitals after patients reported a lack of essential drugs at government institutions
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Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa on Friday dismissed claims that all hospitals in the province didn’t have diabetes and cancer treatment available. This after the Democratic Alliance (DA) said it had noted with concern the shortage of essential drugs at government hospitals in the province. The party made claims that medication for cancer patients had..
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Healthcare in SA appalling – Elderly patients forced to wait 5 days for treatment at Durban hospital
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You sit on a hard chair or lie on a thin gurney for five days, then you’re told to pack your things and go because the machine is broken and no treatment is available. That was the fate of a pensioner at Durban’s Addington Hospital who arrived for treatment on Monday and by lunchtime on..
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The Hawks are investigating an alleged fraudulent payout of more than R110-million by the Eastern Cape health department
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The money, desperately needed by hospitals and clinics, apparently found its way into the pockets of senior ANC officials in the province. Former infrastructure boss at the department, Mlamli Tuswa, says his attempts to raise the alarm about this irregular payment were ignored. In an affidavit, submitted to the Hawks’ anti-corruption task team in East..
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The department of health is now really starting to falling apart:- Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital’s last lift to theater broken
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Surgeries had to be delayed at Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital after the only operational lift – to the theatre complex – was declared unsafe by the department of labour. Staff also struggled to get food and medicine to patients. The hospital’s theatres are on the first floor, making an operational lift essential. Eastern Cape department..
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Dinge begin nou regtig inmekaar val in ons staatshospitale, hulle voel ‘n veer vir Blanke pasiënte:- ‘My ma sou hiér doodgegaan het’
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Die suster het glo vir haar gesê sy kan wag tot 21:30 wanneer hulle die medikasie uitdeel. Witbank Hospitaal is deesdae baie in die nuus – met goeie rede. Na twee klagtes in verlede week se WITBANK NUUS het nog ’n voorval aan die lig gekom van ’n vrou wat gaan hulp soek het by..
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The scourge of crime in Cape Town knows no bounds, Kensington Day Hospital closed indefinitely after robbery
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Kensington Day Hospital in Cape Town, has been closed indefinitely, after computers and other equipment were stolen this past weekend. As reported by EWN, the day hospital was vandalized and police believe that the burglars also made it off with medication too. Why is Kensington Day Hospital closed? According to police spokesperson, Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana,..
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Failing health system in spotlight ahead of vote – psychiatric patients tied to bed in emergency ward of SA’s biggest hospital – is this the guaranteed basic treatment that ANC-regime promised South Africans when it came to power in 1994?
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Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the country’s dire healthcare crisis is starkly evident. Some of the group are restrained using just medical bandages, while one screaming female patient is tied to a bed that is itself..
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