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In December, Health-e News reported on the unacceptable service patients received at Pelonomi Regional Hospital in Bloemfontein. Free State Health MEC Montsheng Tsiu has since told Health-e News that the department and hospital management will meet in search of urgent solutions. Late last year, Mpuse Thamae, a mother of a patient, took
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Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
By Caradee Yael Wright, South African Medical Research Council Most skin cancers are caused by too much exposure to the sun – specifically solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation or rays. These can damage the cells in the skin and cause them to mutate. This causes skin cancer. Melanoma is the most
Mental health: Tragic end for psychiatric patient
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
The family of a mental health patient who took his own life at Hayani Psychiatric Hospital in Limpopo said all the 28-year-old wanted was to go home, but his condition prevented that.  Fhulufhelo Mulaudzi, 28, from Mdabula village outside Thohoyandou went missing last Tuesday. Four days later, on Saturday,
Load-shedding: job losses, gender based violence and increased anxiety
Lilita Gcwabe
For two years, *Thandekile Ngwenya, a candidate attorney, has driven the same route to her workplace, a law firm in Rosebank, without incident. On 18 January, this changed. Due to load-shedding, the traffic lights were out, and Ngwenya felt herself getting anxious. “I always feel nervous driving during load-shedding because
Whooping cough cases increase rapidly, officials urge vigilance
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
The number of laboratory confirmed whooping cough (pertussis) cases in South Africa has risen dramatically, with cases doubling in just a few weeks. In December the National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported a total of 408 cases countrywide, with 230 of those cases in the Western Cape. Speaking to
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