A social media post showing an overcrowded maternity ward at Tembisa Hospital in Ekurhuleni sparked outcry over the underresourced care that pregnant women receive and the overwhelming working conditions that midwives and nurses at Gauteng hospitals find themselves in. The hospital has conceded to being faced with overcrowding, saying it had raised the issue with..
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Overcrowding at Tembisa Hospital’s maternity ward sparks outcry – 192 souls in a ward that was supposed to occupy 51 patients – patients sleeping on floor and chairs
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State hospitals in distress! Addington Hospital patients go without food after lifts stop working
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Durban – Patients at Durban’s Addington Hospital had to go without breakfast on Wednesday as lifts in the 16-storey building had stopped working. Wayne Twynham said he has to regularly carry his 72-year-old uncle, who has had one leg amputated, upstairs because the lifts are often not in working order. “He lost his foot during..
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Gruesome discovery as man’s decomposed body found in ceiling at Mahatma Gandhi hospital, Durban hospital after cleaners and nurses were troubled by a strong stench from the linen room
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The decomposed body of a man was discovered in the ceiling of a hospital in Durban on Friday. The gruesome discovery was made by members of Search and Rescue, the Durban K9 unit and police officials who were called out to the trauma unit of the Mahatma Gandhi hospital in Phoenix, south of Durban. Police..
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WATCH | Eastern Cape hospital overrun by food-snatching cats
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An extraordinary government decision to use cats at a number of Eastern Cape hospitals to do battle with rats has hit a snag. Patients in a rural hospital have complained about a battle of their own, trying to defend the food on their plates from a rag-tag army of stray cats who are not taking..
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Healthcare in SA appalling – Elderly patients forced to wait 5 days for treatment at Durban hospital
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You sit on a hard chair or lie on a thin gurney for five days, then you’re told to pack your things and go because the machine is broken and no treatment is available. That was the fate of a pensioner at Durban’s Addington Hospital who arrived for treatment on Monday and by lunchtime on..
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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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Patient’s nightmare after operation at EL hospital – man lay in faeces, infested with flies
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The family of a man who allegedly lay in bed in his own faeces, with an open wound infested with flies, has accused Frere Hospital of negligence and poor service. Reginald Durandt, 52, from Amalinda, was admitted to the hospital on April 9 for surgery on a twisted bowel. His brother, Henry Durandt, said Reginald’s..
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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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Springs Clinic allegedly out of chronic medication for the past two weeks – Patients have been turned away
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Patients have been turned away from the Springs Clinic in the East-Rand, for the past two weeks as the facility allegedly does not have certain types of chronic medication. Patients are unhappy about the way they have been treated by the staff at the Springs Clinic. Bester went on to allege that last Monday, the..
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Groot aantal onwettige immigrante wat hulle wend tot Suid-Afrika se mediese dienste plaas geweldige druk op die gesondheidstelsel, maar ANC-regime sê hy het ’n plan!
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Die ANC se Minister van Gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, het omstanders probeer paai deur te sê dat die regering wel ’n plan het met immigrante wat in SA se hospitale beland. Die minister het egter nie uitgewei om te verduidelik wat die plan behels nie, wat die vermoede laat bestaan dat die minister iets uit sy..
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