Do more to address birth defects
SAHR 2016: SA has not reduced deaths of children under the age of five since 2011 as we have failed to address “congenital disorders”.
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5 May 2016
Hospitals ill-equipped to handle trauma cases
SAHR 2016: Injuries transport accidents and violence account for over a quarter of all emergency department visits, yet many hospitals are ill-equipped to deal with them
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Water supply under threat from pollution
SAHR 2016: Sewage, acid mine drainage and climate change threaten the purity of our water supply.
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Staff shortages, poor leadership cripple healthcare
There is a human resource crisis in healthcare that is driven partly by government tolerance of incompetent staff, according to Health Systems Trust’s South African Health Review 2016
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Ambulance arrives too late to save teen
Lele Gangile, 19, thought he wanted to end his life but when he had second thoughts, an ambulance may have arrived too late to save the Orange Farm teen.
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