Met sowat 7 miljoen mense wat HIV-positief is, word dit die land met die hoogste aantal besmettings ter wêreld beskou. In die afgelope week het politieke leiers, geneeshere en wetenskaplikes almal hulle mening gege oor die geweldige krisis, en is dit beklemtoon dat die stryd nie laat vaar kan word teen die gevaarlike virus nie…
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Met sowat 7 miljoen mense wat HIV-positief is,is SA die grootste HIV draer in wêreld
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Horrific photos from the children’s ward in a provincial hospital in Mpumalanga, Middelburg
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‘A Pathetic ANC Government; A Pathetic People; A Match Made in Hell’ – These horrific photos are from the childrens ward in a provincial hospital in Mpumalanga, Middelburg What does it say about black South Africans, when they sit back and allow their elected government to treat their sick, ailing and injured children like human..
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Workers shut down the Fort Napier Medico Legal Mortuary in Pietermaritzburg
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Workers shut down the Fort Napier Medico Legal Mortuary in Pietermaritzburg on Monday and Tuesday, turning away families who had come to fetch the bodies of loved ones. Workers have been on a go-slow for two weeks, demanding a wage increase and better working conditions. On Monday workers barricaded the road, blocking the mortuary gates..
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Huge number of ‘medical legal claims’ against health departments – just another sheer sign that the NHI is doomed to failure
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The civil rights organisation AfriForum today expressed concern regarding the huge number of medical legal claims against provincial health departments. Rapport yesterday reported that Kimi Makwetu, the Auditor General, concluded that these claims are much more in seven of the country’s provinces than the various departments’ industry budget for 2018/2019 and subsequently contain large risks..
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Public hospitals in South Africa have become a death-trap for the poor
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Refiloe Nt’sekhe of the Democratic Alliance says that public hospitals have become a death-trap for the poor‚ says The party has produced this checklist of the top eight problems that it says require urgent intervention‚ following inspection visits to hospitals and clinics over the past month by DA provincial health spokespersons Jack Bloom MPL (Gauteng)‚..
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Livingston Hospital: Dirty hospital linen in plastic bags is piling up and patients often have to bring their own linen from home when hospitalised
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The problem, which has been attributed to a broken washing machine and recent strike action at the hospital, has affected three hospitals – Livingstone, Dora Nginza and Provincial – as washing for all three hospitals is done at Livingstone. Several plastic bags containing dirty linen are lying outside the laundry and while hospital management is..
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Mortuary out of hell! – Pietermaritzburg mortuary is filled with rotting corpse , no supply of cleaning chemicals and a air-conditioning system that is not functioning since 2014 – Way to go ANC!
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The smell hits you as soon as you enter the reception area. Workers say the air-conditioning system has not been working since 2014. The workers, who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation, took GroundUp on a short tour of the mortuary. Outside the reception area is a kitchen, and the toilets..
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Staking by die San Michele-tehuis in Brakpan is vir eers opgeskort nadat een van die psigiatriese pasiënte dood is
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Die staking by die San Michele-tehuis in Brakpan is vir eers opgeskort nadat “een van die pasiënte dood is”, het Ellen Bodoza, woordvoerder van die National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (Nupsaw), gesê. Dié vakbond verteenwoordig die stakers. Bodoza het Maandag gesê hul lede het by die tehuis vir psigiatriese en gestremde pasiënte..
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143 lykshuise se yskaste funksioneer nie meer behoorlik, hoe funksioneer die Gesondheid Departement as hul nie eers in staat is om yskaste in stand te hou?
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Die Minister van Gesondheid het by navraag in die parlement gesê dat meer as 143 lykshuise se yskaste nie “behoorlik funksioneer” nie terwyl sommiges reeds tien jaar disfunksioneel is. In Sentraal Transvaal is daar in nege distrikte dertien yskaste wat nie werk nie terwyl die Odi Hospitaal in Pretoria drie yskaste het wat reeds 18..
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This is what the ANC-government did to SA’s health care! – Cancer patients in KZN must wait up to six months for mammogram screening
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Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo is on record calling for people to get screened for early detection of cancers. And late last month, the national and provincial health departments launched a cancer campaign to educate people that many cancers were preventable or could be “successfully” treated through early detection and timeous treatment. However, more concerns..
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