NEHAWU members thrashed the Maternity Wards and kitchen of Pietersburg Hospital while they were illegally picketing at the hospital. Nurses who were assisting women to give birth had to run for cover fearing the picketers who were on a destructive mode. Patient food for tonight scattered all over the place. They are demanding that the..
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Patients suffer while NEHAWU members trashed Pietersburg hospital during illegal picketing, demanding performance bonuses
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National Health Insurance: Medical specialists and doctors threaten to flee overseas
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The new National Health Insurance (NHI) that the ANC-regime wants to implement is facing fierce opposition from doctors and medical professionals in the Free State. These medics are currently threatening to go overseas, meanwhile, the Free State DA has also been involved in a fight with Montsent Tsiu, the MEC of Health in the province…
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Two SA doctors are making revolutionary advances in malaria research
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In the small village of Musina in the Far Northern Transvaal, a revolutionary piece of scientific progress has been made that can save millions of people’s lives. This is especially true for young children who die in large numbers every year due to malaria that could not be determined in time. According to the two..
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‘Pay or Die’: Huge Disparity in Cost of Cancer Treatment – A year’s supply of cancer medicine cost less than R32,000 in India, but costs R882,000 in South Africa!
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Durban – Despite having a good medical aid, Pinetown resident Hennie Botha, 52, is facing mounting debt of thousands of Rands because of the cost of his cancer treatment. He is not alone: the exorbitant cost of treatment for cancer in South Africa is way beyond the reach of most citizens.
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NHI dream is actually a sick and an unaffordable nightmare and built on a foundation of failure and ignorance
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The National Health Insurance Bill (NHI) is built on a foundation of failure and ignorance, the DA health spokesperson told parliament on Friday. Siviwe Gwarube argued that the costs of proposals in the bill, which was approved by the cabinet this week, were nothing more than a thumb-suck. “And the NHI pilot projects across the..
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THE HORRIFIC AND BARBARIC STATE OF HOSPITALS IN GAUTENG UNDER THE ANC REGIME
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Under this mortifying and morbid circumstances that characterise the department of Health in Gauteng why has Section 100(b) not been applied to this department since the Provincial government has failed to address issues of Social Justice in Health care. One should also indicate that the negligence of the sickly and abuse of public resources is..
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Pregnant woman relates awful experience at South Rand Hospital – patients were forced to eat with their hands as no cutlery provided and ladies gave birth in the hallway
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NATASHA Janse van Rensburg feels she was ill-treated at South Rand Hospital during her time of labour. The 41-year-old from South Hills said she was admitted to hospital on May 16 and she was two weeks overdue. She claimed she was made to wait for quite some time until she was assisted and shown a..
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Ontstellende agteruitgang van staatshospitale en mediese sorg fasiliteit tydens ANC bewind
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Sedert 1994 het die mediese sorg fasiliteite en veral staatshospitale met rasse skrede agteruitgegaan. Die eens hoogs aangeskrewe opleidings hospitale soos HF Verwoerd Hospitaal, Johannesburg Algemene Hospitaal, Tygerberg Hospitaal en Universitas Hospitaal in Bloemfontein het van die beste dokters opgelewer in die kontinent. Tans sukkel Universitas Hospitaal met ‘n uittog van spesialiste wat nie meer..
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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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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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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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