The Western Government Health Department will be investigating a young mother’s claims that she nearly bled to death after suffering a miscarriage, while nurses ignored her and ate their cereal at Groote Schuur Hospital. The woman says she lay for seven hours in a heap of blood clots “the size of her fists”, while the..
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Nurses allegedly ‘ignored’ pleas for help as mom cradled dead infant after suffering a miscarriage, while nurses pay no attention to her and ate their cereal at Groote Schuur Hospital
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One month later and still no surgery for elderly woman who suffered extensive injuries at Limpopo hospital – This is what happen when you cannot afford medical aid and you left in the care of government hospitals!
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Catherine Ugoda and her twin granddaughters were admitted to the Louis Trichardt Hospital on 22 December after the taxi they were travelling in crashed into a bakkie on the N1. An elderly woman who suffered extensive injuries during an accident exactly a month ago says she’s frustrated and disappointed that she’s still waiting for surgery..
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A change in birth options: What’s behind SA’s skyrocketing C-section rates?
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Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?
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Government health care system a disgrace – Elderly man from Sasolburg fear for his life after told to only come back to Boitumelo Regional Hospital in 2020 for much needed surgery
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A 61-year-old Sasolburg man has been left angered and fearing for his life after being told he has to wait until 2020 before he can have surgery at a hospital in Kroonstad to treat his debilitating condition. Joseph Morake had already waited seven months for November 30, the initial date of surgery given to him..
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Court orders Gauteng health MEC to pay R17m A Randfontein mother’s prematurely born girl sustained brain injuries due to shoddy care during and after her birth at Leratong hospital
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A Randfontein mother’s prematurely born girl sustained brain injuries due to shoddy care during and after her birth at Leratong hospital. Gauteng health MEC Dr Gwen Ramokgopa has been ordered to pay over R17 million to a Randfontein mother and her six-year-old daughter who suffered severe brain damage because of shoddy care during and after..
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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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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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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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