Durban – Despite having a good medical aid, Pinetown resident Hennie Botha, 52, is facing mounting debt of thousands of Rands because of the cost of his cancer treatment. He is not alone: the exorbitant cost of treatment for cancer in South Africa is way beyond the reach of most citizens.
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‘Pay or Die’: Huge Disparity in Cost of Cancer Treatment – A year’s supply of cancer medicine cost less than R32,000 in India, but costs R882,000 in South Africa!
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Employees of Rob Ferreira workers down tools, demands that MEC step in to resolve the impasse between management in order to create a safer work environment
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Rob Ferreira Hospital auxillary workers staged a sit-in in the hospital’s boardroom this morning. According to Sidwell Mavuso, who represents the striking workers, hospital management and the CEO refused to meet with the workers to discuss their demands. The striking NEHAWU-aligned workers have vowed to bar anyone from entering or leaving the hospital on Monday..
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Belastingbetalers gaan moet opdok vir Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering – menende dat jy gaan betaal vir die migrant se gesondheidsdienste
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Die hersiene NGV-wetsontwerp wat Donderdag uitgereik is, dui aan dat belastingbetalers gaan mettertyd moet opdok vir die ANC se beplande Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering (NGV). Volgens die verslag word daar uitgestippel dat persoonlike-inkomstebelasting in die laaste fase van NGV se inwerkingstelling verhoog kan word om daarvoor te betaal. Die wetsontwerp stippel nou dit nou baie duideliker uit..
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Mediese fonds lede kan hul staal vir verhogings van gemiddeld 8,8% in hul premies in 2020
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Die adviesfirma GTC waarsku dat lede van mediese fondse moet hulle staal vir verhogings van gemiddeld 8,8% in hul premies in 2020. GTC se hoof van konsultasiedienste oor gesondheidsorg, Jill Larkan, sê volgens Netwerk24 dat die Raad op Mediese Skemas (RMS) in sy 9 Julie omsendbrief aan mediese fondse verhogings van gemiddeld 5,4% voorgestel het…
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Nearly seven hours: that’s how long it takes to get treated at Pretoria hospital
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It takes an average of nearly seven hours to register, see a doctor and collect medicine at Steve Biko Academic hospital in Pretoria. That’s according to Gauteng health MEC Bandile Masuku, who revealed recorded average waiting times at the facility while replying to questions in the Gauteng legislature on Tuesday. Masuku was answering a query..
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FF Plus pays a visit to Sebokeng Hospital after parents’ plea to investigate adverse conditions and incompetent actions of medical professionals
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The FF Plus paid an urgent visit to the Sebokeng Hospital in Emfuleni last Friday after the parents of a young man approached the party to investigate the circumstances at the hospital. The 21-year-old man, who has been in the hospital for 35 days, was admitted on the 10th of June for a simple procedure…
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For those of you who can afford medical aid, here are the top 20 hospitals in SA
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Five new hospitals are among the top 20 hospitals in the country this year, according to the Discovery Health outreach. Busamed Hillcrest Private Hospital (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) has been on the list of 20 best hospitals for five years. Discovery Health first released the results of a survey in 2014, filling out members of the medical..
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Staatshospitale val uitmekaar weens verouderde infrastruktuur en verkeer in haglike toestande maar ANC-regime gaan eerder R30 miljard gee vir nuttelose NGV
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Die bedrag van R30 miljard wat geoormerk is om die nuttelose Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering (NGV) te loods, moet eerder meer effektief gebruik word. Die VF Plus is van mening dat hierdie geld eerder gebruik kan word om sekuriteit te verbeter, aandag te gee aan die herstel en aankoop van toerusting by hospitale en klinieke by die..
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State takeover of academic hospitals is not the answer – Central healthcare clinical and administrative capacity lacking and provinces would be affected adversely
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There have been mounting calls recently for central academic hospitals to be moved into the national governance sphere, allowing the national health department to administer and run these institutions. Even Gauteng premier David Makhura supported the idea in his state of the province address, indicating that Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Steve..
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NHI dream is actually a sick and an unaffordable nightmare and built on a foundation of failure and ignorance
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The National Health Insurance Bill (NHI) is built on a foundation of failure and ignorance, the DA health spokesperson told parliament on Friday. Siviwe Gwarube argued that the costs of proposals in the bill, which was approved by the cabinet this week, were nothing more than a thumb-suck. “And the NHI pilot projects across the..
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