The ANC government is again, as it was last year, extremely negligent in dealing with graduated young doctors who have to be posted for their one year community service. About 2,600 young doctors who have graduated within a month have not yet been notified where to go for their one-year mandatory service to the community…
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2,600 graduated young doctors not yet placed out for their one-year mandatory service
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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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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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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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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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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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NASPERS Steek Volksmoord Agter Betaalmuur Weg – Doodsvonisse word opgelê by Staatshospitale vir diegene wat nie mediese fondse kan bekostig nie! Bejaarde vrou dood ná sy geen sorg vir gebreekte been ontvang by provinsiale hospitaal
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NASPERS (Netwerk24) het ons gevra om dié berig hieronder te verwyder. Wat is dit wat Netwerk24 wil wegsteek van arm mense van SA, wat nie subskripsies tot NASPERS, of Mediese Fondse kan bekostig nie? Wil hulle hê arm mense moet onder die verkeerde indruk wees dat Staatshospitale absoluut goed is, en dan as hulle daar opdaag in ‘n noodgeval, word hulle vir die dood gelaat deur nalatigheid wat nie net doelbewus is nie maar ook dalk rassisties is?
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David Makhura won’t list Gauteng’s worst hospitals – province’s public hospitals are in trouble, but some of them are basically ‘crime scenes’
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In a statement on Sunday, DA shadow health MEC Jack Bloom complained that Premier David Makhura had failed to clarify which were the five worst hospitals in Gauteng that would receive special intervention over the next 12 months, according to the premier. “In the printed version of his state of the province speech (Sopa) there..
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SA hospitale word as “dood inrigtings” beskryf en beoogde Nasionale Gesondheidsprogram sal op ’n totale ramp afstuur – gratis mediese sorg vir hele bevolking nie haalbaar
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Die regering wil graag ʼn Nasionale Gesondheid-program daar stel sodat die hele bevolking van Suid Afrika, toegang tot gratis mediese sorg kan kry. Die realiteit spreek egter boekdele. Na ‘n onsuksesvolle termyn as Minister van Gesondheid is Aaron Motsoaledi “herontplooi” na ʼn ander sektor van die kabinet. Onder sy heerskappy het 143 pasiënte gesterf in..
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