It’s been two weeks since Gauteng began rolling out lenacapavir (LEN), but patients in parts of Pretoria are yet to get the jab
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TB prevention lacking in Limpopo – TAC
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has found tuberculosis (TB) prevention efforts in the province to be lacking with patients paying the price.
Nurses at North West hospital forced to boil bath water for patients
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Due to a broken water boilers, nurses at Tshepong Hospital’s surgical ward are forced to boil water for patients so that they can bath. The health facility in Klerksdorp is also faced with a shortage of bed linen for patients.
Vaccines run out at an Eastern Cape hospital leaving senior citizens stranded in the cold
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Dozens of Eastern Cape senior citizens were heartbroken on Friday after braving cold weather to go to a COVID-19 vaccination centre at Komani Frontier Hospital only to be turned away after doses ran out.
Denosa Limpopo calls for rapid vaccination of its members
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With phase two of the vaccination programme already underway, many healthcare workers remain unvaccinated. The Democratic Nurses Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) in Limpopo demand that the provincial government prioritise the vaccination of front-line nurses.
Initiation schools in North West to remain closed due to COVID-19 fears
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Initiation practices in the province have been suspended for over a year since the country went into lockdown in March last year and will remain closed due to the threat of a third wave of COVID-19 infections.
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