8 August 2013

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Discovery in dispute with cancer patient

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Thobeka Xaba, 23, is in a life-and-death struggle against an invasive cancer that has immobilised her left arm. But she has had no chemotherapy since 25 March because her medical aid, Discovery, refuses to pay for the medicine recommended by her oncologist.

kerrycullinan
August 8, 2013
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Progress for school toilets in Winterveldt

Our Health

Since OurHealth reported earlier this year on the appalling toilet conditions at Winterveldt schools in Tshwane some improvements have begun.

mishackmahlangu
August 8, 2013
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Around 700 people to one toilet in Zamimpilo

Our Health

In Zamimpilo between six and seven thousands residents share ten toilets, says a community leader, and this is causing serious health problems.

lungilethamela
August 8, 2013

Illness risk for poor who pick food off dumpsites

Determinants Of Health, Our Health

In Chief Albert Luthuli, which has an unemployment rate of 35.2% and many people living below poverty line of R283 per month, Kholina Minisi is one of many people vulnerable to serious disease because she is forced to find food for her family from the municipal dumpsite near Silobela township.