Die Laerskool Vaalwater in Limpopo is tot verdere kennisgewing gesluit nadat skarlakenkoors by etlike leerlinge en onderwysers gediagnoseer is. Ouers is Maandagoggend laat weet om hul kinders as voorkomingsmaatreël by die skool te gaan haal. Skarlakenkoors is Vrydag by twee gr. R-leerlinge van die Laerskool Vaalwater deur dokters gediagnoseer. Daar word nog vasgestel hoeveel van..
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Laerskool in Limpopo gesluit tot verdere kennisgewing oor uitbreek van hoogs aansteeklike bakteriese siekte
WGO waarsku oor ’n volgende griep epidemie –Sal SA-regering gereed wees om so ’n krisis die hoof te bied as mens die huidige gesondheidskrisis van die land in ag neem?
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Die Wêreld Gesondheid Organisasie (WGO) van die Verenigde Nasies het ’n allesomvattende wêreld plan opgestel om ’n volgende griep epidemie te voorkom. Die plan word beskou as die mees omvattende aksie wat ten doel het om die wêreld voor te berei vir die volgende griep pandemie. Volgens die WGO is dit nie ’n kwessie van..
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Our borders are being flooded so the question is, are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?
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Directives recently issued by the national and Gauteng health departments requiring foreign nationals to pay in full for healthcare at public facilities weren’t only a threat to public health, they may have been downright illegal. Walk into a public hospital, and you may be asked to fill out a form stating just how much you..
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More ‘money wasted’ and there are lots of concerns over incomplete Free State drug treatment centre
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The Portfolio Committee on Social Development wants to have a meeting with the National Treasury and the Department of Public Works as to why a drug treatment centre in the Free State has not been completed. In a statement the committee said the facility has been under construction for three years without any progress. This..
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ANC owerheid nalatig om betyds voorraad aan te vul van lewensnoodsaaklike entstof, nou sit SA met landswye tekort – kinders se gesondheidstoestand word nou bedreig
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Suid-Afrika se gesondheidsektor het tans ’n landswye tekort aan lewensnoodsaaklike entstof wat voorkomend is vir Witseerkeel asook ’n entstof ter voorkoming van klem in die kaak. Die tekort het ouers nie net gefrustreerd gelaat nie, maar veroorsaak woede en angs omdat hul geliefdes se algehele toestand bedreig word. Die tekort aan die entstof is ’n..
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Here’s a view on what the 2019 budget means for healthcare consumers
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National Health Insurance (NHI) is critical to creating a quality functioning healthcare system for all South Africans and it is good to see that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Budget Speech covered areas such as increased funding for certain diseases and improved service delivery in the public sector. Healthcare in South Africa can only work if..
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SA becoming a third world country, healthcare in shambles – Overcrowding in mortuaries becoming a national problem and health risk
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Unfolding investigations have led to the exposure of a national problem of overcrowding in South African mortuaries. This was the outcome after local business owners, situated near the Middelburg State Mortuary, lost business due to the oppressive smell of decomposition permeating from the morgue. The bodies of 18 cable thieves who perished in an explosion..
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Medical funds for migrants expended, no additional funding available for treating foreigners says Gauteng Health MEC. So where is the funding going to come from?
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No more funds to treat foreigners says Gauteng health MEC. The Gauteng health department has sent letters of demand to foreign embassies as it tries to recover monies from foreign nationals who failed to settle their bills. The Gauteng department of health needs alternative funding to deal with high volumes of foreigners who are treated..
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Sleep Restores Immunity and Lack of Sleep Destroys It – How To Burn This Problematic Candle From Both Ends…
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Previous studies have linked lack of sleep to a number of health issues such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes. Lack of sleep also affected the immune system and now new studies reveal that lack of sleep has the same impact on the human body as high stress does. As reported in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. “Sleep deprivation effect on the immune system mirrors physical stress.” – ScienceDaily
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Gauteng-gesondheid R5 mjd. in die rooi en sal waarskynlik ’n reddingsboei moet kry, nogtans ploeg ANC regering voort met nuwe gesondheidsplan alhoewel hy nou alreeds nie die mas kan opkom nie
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Die Gautengse departement van gesondheid sal waarskynlik ’n reddingsboei moet kry, waarsku die DA. Jack Bloom, DA-woordvoerder oor gesondheid in Gauteng, sê dr. Gwen Ramokgopa, Gautengse LUR vir gesondheid, het verlede week bevestig die departement is sowat R5 miljard in die rooi. Bloom het haar op ’n vergadering van die Gautengse wetgewer se gesondheidskomitee oor..
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