Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa on Friday dismissed claims that all hospitals in the province didn’t have diabetes and cancer treatment available. This after the Democratic Alliance (DA) said it had noted with concern the shortage of essential drugs at government hospitals in the province. The party made claims that medication for cancer patients had..
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Gauteng Health MEC Dismisses Claims Of Essential Medicine Shortages At Hospitals after patients reported a lack of essential drugs at government institutions
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SHOCKING NEWS:- Drug dealers are making as much as R4,000 a day from South Africa’s growing heroin epidemic, and most might OD (overdose) and die
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South Africa is facing a growing drug epidemic, new research finds, with heroin quietly taking over both major cities and small towns in the country. This is according to a new policy brief by the Enact Project, based on research and on-the-ground interviews with drug users and drug dealers across the country. “The heroin route..
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Current medical aid models for end-of-life care will pay for costly in-hospital care but won’t pay for home-based care
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But an all women fintech startup is offering affordable and compassionate healthcare alternatives to SA’s medical schemes. Alignd is the brainchild of Dr Linda Holding, a palliative-trained doctor with 20 years of clinical risk management experience; Victoria Barr, a healthcare economist, and senior director at FTI Consulting; and Shivani Ranchod, a healthcare actuary and academic…
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Cancer is one of the silent killers in the world, starting colorectal cancer screening at 45 would avert deaths
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A Stanford-led study found that increasing the participation of older adults in colorectal cancer screening would help prevent more deaths than expanding testing to people in their 40s. Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease US cancer deaths by as much as 11,100 over five years, according to a..
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The department of health is now really starting to falling apart:- Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital’s last lift to theater broken
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Surgeries had to be delayed at Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital after the only operational lift – to the theatre complex – was declared unsafe by the department of labour. Staff also struggled to get food and medicine to patients. The hospital’s theatres are on the first floor, making an operational lift essential. Eastern Cape department..
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Durban man, Mr. Balgobind, is in a coma and his wife were told to leave the private hospital over bill query
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Durban – A MANAGER at a private hospital allegedly demanded that a gravely ill patient, who has been comatose since December, be expelled from the facility because his family questioned the medical bill they were ordered to pay. Durban businessman Prem Balgobind had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery at Arwyp Medical Centre, a private hospital..
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Dinge begin nou regtig inmekaar val in ons staatshospitale, hulle voel ‘n veer vir Blanke pasiënte:- ‘My ma sou hiér doodgegaan het’
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Die suster het glo vir haar gesê sy kan wag tot 21:30 wanneer hulle die medikasie uitdeel. Witbank Hospitaal is deesdae baie in die nuus – met goeie rede. Na twee klagtes in verlede week se WITBANK NUUS het nog ’n voorval aan die lig gekom van ’n vrou wat gaan hulp soek het by..
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The scourge of crime in Cape Town knows no bounds, Kensington Day Hospital closed indefinitely after robbery
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Kensington Day Hospital in Cape Town, has been closed indefinitely, after computers and other equipment were stolen this past weekend. As reported by EWN, the day hospital was vandalized and police believe that the burglars also made it off with medication too. Why is Kensington Day Hospital closed? According to police spokesperson, Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana,..
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Failing health system in spotlight ahead of vote – psychiatric patients tied to bed in emergency ward of SA’s biggest hospital – is this the guaranteed basic treatment that ANC-regime promised South Africans when it came to power in 1994?
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Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the country’s dire healthcare crisis is starkly evident. Some of the group are restrained using just medical bandages, while one screaming female patient is tied to a bed that is itself..
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Verslag oor swak diens in staatshospitale saamgestel om verantwoordbaarheid in die gesondheidsektor te verhoog
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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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