A drug to treat high blood pressure for almost 12‚500 South Africans is being recalled after the active ingredient was shown to be contaminated by a potentially cancer-causing chemical. The recall‚ however‚ comes almost three weeks after the drug was removed from shelves in Europe‚ the UK and the USA because the Chinese manufactured active..
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Blood pressure medicine recalled due to cancer risk – but the regulator took three weeks to act
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Resident allegedly turned away from clinic because she’s ‘white’
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The metro has denied claims that Yolanda Ferencak’s children were turned away from Birchleigh North Clinic because they are white. “The acting manager interviewed all the personnel at Birchleigh North Clinic. They indicated that none of them saw or sent away any patient or referred them to Birchleigh Clinic,” said Themba Gadebe, the metro’s spokesperson…
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Lack of water stops surgery at Themba Hospital
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Themba Hospital ran out of water again on Friday. By Monday morning, while the Department of Health assured Lowvelder that the supply had been restored, patients’ surgeries were still being postponed as a result of the shortage. During the newspaper’s visit yesterday, hospital staff and patients could be seen taking water in buckets up an..
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Departement van Gesondheid het Kuba se hulp ingeroep met NGV
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Aaron Motsoaledi het aangekondig dat die Departement van Gesondheid gebruik gaan maak van die bykans 250 “dokters” wat sopas teruggekeer het vanuit Kuba na hul opleiding aldaar. Hierdie pas afgestudeerde en nat agter die ore dokters sonder enige ondervinding, gaan nou glo help om die voorgestelde abortiewe Nasionale Gesondheid Versekering van die grond te kry…
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Staatshospitale het ‘n te kort aan dokters – dit word nou ‘n krisis
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Die minister van gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, het sy saak bepleit in ‘n verklaring waarin hy sê dat daar 14 onkologie apparate is wat elk R40 miljoen werd is, maar daar is geen spesialiste om die apparaat te gebruik nie. Natal ondervind al maande lank ‘n probleem nie net met dokters nie, maar met mediese apparaat..
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480 narkotiseurs kan SA verlaat oor swak NGV
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Indien narkotiseurs meen dat die Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering (NGV) en die beoogde prysbeheer ’n bedreiging vir hul beroep inhou, kan tot sowat 480 of ’n derde van hulle die land verlaat. Natalie Zimmelman, uitvoerende hoof van die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging van Narkotiseurs (Sasa), het Dinsdag op ’n mediakonferensie die uitslae van ’n peiling onder narkotiseurs oor onder..
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Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers
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Hellen Franz Hospital at Blouberg Municipality ka Limpopo must be placed under Administration,how can a Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers..? We can not allow ANC’s Phophi Ramathuba and her incompetent Managers to continue with killing of our people,this Hospital is now a Mortuary coz even if you go there with scratched finger,you..
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Doctor pleads for heaters for babies, gets departmental threats
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A Limpopo hospital is in such a state of disrepair that a doctor has taken to begging for donations to improve conditions for patients. This act of caring, however, has led to the department coming down on him with threats of disciplinary action. Patients at the WF Knobel Hospital in Ga-Matlala outside Polokwane have to..
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Nuwe gesondheidsorg in die vooruitsig
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Die afskaffing van bybetalings op mediese dienste is een van die aanbevelings van die voorgestelde wet op mediese dienste. Volgens Aaron Motsoaelidi, minister van gesondheid, kan slegs 10% van die bevolking private gesondheidsorg bekostig en moet dit onmiddelik reggestel word. Tussengangers gaan ook afgeskaf word om te verseker dat lede direk gelde aan die mediese..
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Rats feed on corpse in Nkonjeni District Hospital, KZN
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When Bonokuhle Khali died in Nkonjeni District Hospital in Zululand, nurses left his body in a dimly lit corner in the male ward where rats spent hours eating the flesh on his face.
As his body lay just metres from sick patients in the ward, the rodents scurried under and over the sheet that covered it, chewing on his nose and lips.
“When I wanted to see my brother they first handed me a clear bag with rat droppings … that is how they told me my brother had been eaten by rats,” his furious brother Jerome Khali told the Sunday Times.
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