Hours after former President Jacob Zuma’s resignation, President Cyril Ramaphosa was pictured walking and jogging along the Sea Point promenade.
It wasn’t the first time he’d been spotted doing this.
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With the Ronald McDonald socks aside…How serious is Cyril about South Africans’ health?
#Budget2018: Cuts to medical aid tax credits begin
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Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba didn’t cut state subsidies for private medical aid members outright but your pocket may still feel the pinch.
The National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme seems to be back on track. On Wednesday, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba announced a 49% increase over three years for a conditional grant that goes to the
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Miljoene betaal vir private ambulans-dienste in Noordwes Provinsie
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Die Valke in Noordwes ondersoek kontrakte wat die provinsiale gesondheidsdepartement met private ambulansdienste aangegaan het, terwyl sowat 60 van die departement se eie ambulanse nie gebruik word nie. Die 61 splinternuwe ambulanse wat Noordwes se gesondheidsdepartement in November en Desember sowat R20 miljoen uit die sak gejaag het, is ná byna drie maande steeds nie..
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Will Extra R4.2-billion allocated to the National Health Insurance change the poor state of hospital care?
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Treasury has allocated an additional R4.2-billion to the National Health Insurance (NHI), sticking to its guns on funding it through cutting tax credits. In the budget tabled by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba on Wednesday, an additional R700-million was set aside for 2018/19, R1.4 billion for 2019/20 and R2.1 billion for 2020/21 – all to be..
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Moms with newborns have to lie on floor in overcrowded NW hospital
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A picture of a woman lying with her newborn baby on a mattress placed on the floor of the maternity ward at the Bophelong Hospital in Mahikeng has gone viral‚ thrusting the apparently overcrowded hospital into the spotlight. On Monday‚ the North West Department of Health told TimesLIVE that it was aware of the crisis..
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How to prevent HIV with a pill
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Mia Malan answers six important questions about the HIV prevention pill in three minutes.
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Slagoffer van plaasaanval sterk goed aan nadat hy privaat mediese sorg ontvang het
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Berdus Henrico, wat verlede week tydens ’n plaasaanval naby Melkrivier gewond is, sterk goed aan nadat hy privaat mediese sorg ontvang het. Hy is aanvanklik in die F.H. Odendaal-hospitaal in Modimolle opgeneem, maar het volgens sy familie nie voldoende mediese sorg ontvang nie. Meer as 36 uur ná die aanval het die hospitaal steeds niks..
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SA ‘dokters’ in China moet glo oor begin in Rusland
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Sowat 60 Vrystaatse mediese studente wat al drie jaar in China studeer, gaan glo na Rusland gestuur word waar hulle van voor af met hul studie moet begin. Dit omdat die Raad vir Gesondheidsberoepe van Suid-Afrika nie hul kwalifikasies erken nie omdat dit glo nie op peil is nie.
So beweer Kgotso Morapela, Vrystaatse leier van die EFF.
Dit is glo omdat die Vrystaatse premierskantoor wat die beursprojekte hanteer, die studente van swak inligting voorsien het, sê Morapela.
Tiisetso Makhele, woordvoerder van die Vrystaatse premier, Ace Magashule, het gesê hulle wag op die EFF om met hulle oor die saak te praat.
“Die Vrystaatse Provinsiale Regering het ’n komitee gestig wat alle sake rondom die beursprogramme hanteer. Ons sal die saak met die nodige waardigheid hanteer.”
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#LifeEsidimeni: Motsoaledi and Makhura could be forced to pay up from their pockets
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Those who oversaw the removal of mental health patients could face the full wrath of the law as could those standing by as KZN’s cancer care fails.
Gauteng health department officials could be criminally charged with culpable homicide for their roles in the Life Esidimeni scandal, says David McQuoid-Mason, a law professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
He believes former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu, her former head of department, Barney Selebano, and the mental health services director, Makgoba Manamela, could be convicted of culpable homicide if prosecutors can prove their negligence caused the deaths of at least 144 patients and that these deaths were illegal. McQuoid-Mason was speaking at a lecture hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics last week.
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Geld groot kopseer vir gesondheid in Gauteng
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Die onlangse uitbreking van die dodelike listeriose in Gauteng is nie die grootste probleem wat die provinsiale gesondheidsdepartement in die gesig staar nie. Die min geld tot die einde van die finansiële jaar is vir die DA ’n bron van kommer.
Jack Bloom, die DA se woordvoerder in Gauteng, sê hoewel listeriose moeilik is om te bekamp, het die voorkoming van die siekte in werklikheid ’n minimale impak op die departement se funksionering.
Dr. Gwen Ramokgopa, Gauteng se LUR vir gesondheid, het Dinsdag by ’n voorlegging aan die provinsiale portefeuljekomitee oor gesondheid erken haar departement sukkel om die siekte te bekamp.
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