AfriForum het die publiek genooi om hul ervarings van treurige dienslewering en behandeling by hospitale en klinieke met dié organisasie te deel in ʼn poging om die swak plekke in die Suid-Afrikaanse gesondheidstelsel bloot te lê. Dr. Eugene Brink, strategiese raadgewer vir gemeenskapsake by AfriForum, sê die organisasie word toenemend met klagtes van swak behandeling..
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Verslag oor swak diens in staatshospitale saamgestel om verantwoordbaarheid in die gesondheidsektor te verhoog
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Why is it so important to fix primary healthcare so crucial to making South Africa healthier
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By some measures – healthy life expectancy, obesity, and depression, among others – South Africa is the unhealthiest country on earth. That’s a sobering fact to consider. How has the country got here? To what extent can its unenviable position be regarded as a failure of primary healthcare? Primary healthcare can refer to the care..
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The Cofi Bill (The Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill) brings down regulatory siloes for medical scheme customers
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Healthcare sector stakeholders have long advocated for a single regulator, believing that the current dual framework creates a regulatory arbitrage not conducive to offering the consumer maximum protection. Just as the public and private healthcare sectors need to work together for South Africa to achieve universal healthcare, the same applies to government departments and regulators…
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The Health Professions Council of South Africa says you need to know about INFORMED CONSENT: The costly legal implications if it’s not done right
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The value of keeping proper written records of explanations, discussions and advice leading to the informed consent to avoid protracted legal proceedings for both doctors and patients was highlighted in the Supreme Court of Appeal judgement in the case of Beukes v Smith. The introduction to the ethical guidelines published by the Health Professions Council..
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South Africa’s medical schemes in good health, both open and restricted, according to Alexander Forbes
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South Africa’s largest medical schemes – both open and restricted – are in good shape and have sufficient reserves to pay members’ claims, according to Alexander Forbes Health’s latest edition of Diagnosis, an annual publication that analyses key trends in the medical schemes industry from 2000 to 2017. The insights were drawn from the Alexander..
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Most people ask Dr Google but be cautious here are the pros and cons of online diagnosis
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Pop symptoms of a headache into a search engine and it will come back with a myriad of diagnoses, varying from a sinus headache to a tumour. Dr Google has become the source of choice for self-diagnosis, a second opinion or to find out more about a diagnosed condition. While many healthcare practitioners caution very..
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Mother disappears and left her disabled kids to starve and live in their own filth
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The mother of this disabled 16-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother is being sought by authorities after the children were found abandoned in a hokkie. The kids were sitting in their own excrement and did not have any food when members of the local neighbourhood watch found them in their Wendy house in Leiden, Delft,..
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The Rahima Moosa hospital in talks with Eskom about possible exemption from load shedding
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In the midst of rolling blackouts throughout South Africa Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Coronationville, Johannesburg, says it is in talks with City Power and power utility Eskom to have its own load shedding schedule and be exempted from that of its surrounding area. This was told to DA leader Mmusi Maimane by..
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BREAKING NEWS:- Tramadol: The Drug Claiming More Lives Than Any Painkiller
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Painkiller Tramadol has killed more people than heroin and cocaine. Imagine a prescription medication that relieves pain just as well as narcotics like Oxycontin, but isn’t addictive. Too good to be true? Turns out, yes. For years, that was the case with Tramadol, a synthetic opioid drug that was released in 1995 under the brand..
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How can this be possible:- Baby dies after doctor allegedly administers wrong blood on her
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A certain doctor at a state hospital has been called out by a woman who alleged he administered the wrong blood on her cousin’s twin baby, who reacted and died moments later. The doctor identified as Dr. Joy allegedly refused to attend to the baby at the government-owned hospital. He was reported to have referred..
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