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Faith Mutizira
The ongoing struggles in South Africa’s public healthcare system, including staff shortages, poor infrastructure and surgery backlogs, came under the spotlight on Tuesday when parliamentarians raised their concerns with Health Minister Joe Phaahla. The minister was delivering his department’s budget vote. Prioritising primary healthcare, mental health facilities and having a
Health budget allocation down R4.4-billionÂ
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The 2023/24 budget allocation for the National Department of Health has declined by  R4,4bn from R64.5bn in 22/23 to R60.1 billion in 2023/24. Health Minister Joe Phaahla says this can be attributed to the discontinuation of conditional grants allocated for fighting Covid-19. Delivering the budget vote in the National
Maternal and newborn health: A death every 7 seconds
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Decreasing investment in maternal and newborn health has stalled global progress in reducing deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies since 2015. According to a new by the United Nations over 4.5 million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first weeks after birth. This is
Moretele residents frustrated by medicine shortage
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As cold and flu season approaches, residents of Bojanala district in the Moretele Municipality face a shortage of medicines to treat colds, and ear and eye infections. This is because of their local faces shortages of these medicines. write Precious Mashiane. Lerato Thibedi, a 34-year-old resident, is one of many
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