Health

Pharmacists asked to pledge support for NHI

South African Pharmacy Council sent unorthodox message

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Brief | 16 October 2019

MEC promises better security for ambulance drivers

Emergency workers return to PE townships

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Brief | 10 October 2019

PE nurses strike escalates

Health workers are worried about their safety after a spate of assaults

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News | 8 October 2019

Don’t rob us, plead ambulance drivers

Emergency services workers protest in PE townships

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Brief | 7 October 2019

Medical staff demand better security at Motherwell clinic

Strike enters second day

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Brief | 3 October 2019

Groote Schuur unveils new cancer machine that can treat 40 patients a day

The hospital treats 3,000 new oncology patients a year

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News | 3 October 2019

Nightmare labour for mother in Limpopo hospital

Health department says incident was “truly unacceptable”

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News | 26 September 2019

Hope for HIV vaccine being tested in South Africa

While it’s too soon to be confident, a vaccine originally tested in Thailand has shown promising early results

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Science | 20 September 2019

Fire closes Mitchells Plain hospital

“The quick reaction time of the fire crews resulted in the fire being contained to the theater section of the hospital”

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Brief | 13 September 2019

“Too poor to be treated”: Gugulethu residents demand better healthcare

Residents march to clinics and police station

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News | 5 September 2019

Farmworkers want 67 pesticides banned

NGO says the pesticides are already banned in the European Union

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News | 29 August 2019

Burn victims unable to get life changing treatment

South Africa’s only tissue bank has been empty the past two months

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News | 26 August 2019

Mom loses court case but scores a bigger victory for Eastern Cape patients

Supreme Court of Appeal has called on health minister Zweli Mkhize to “urgently address” the dire situation at government hospitals in the Eastern Cape

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Law | 16 August 2019

Western Cape health services paint bloody picture of gun violence

“We are doing battleground medicine,” says minister

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News | 8 August 2019

NEHAWU demands dismissal of Limpopo MEC for Health

The union also calls for Director General to be given the boot following Auditor-General finding

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Brief | 1 August 2019

HIV drug studies offer patients more choices

But new regimens are not problem-free

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Science | 26 July 2019