ayandamkhwanazi

Health, Health Systems, News

Millions go hungry, accountability and public participation needed

One in four people go hungry in South Africa every day, and the public needs to ensure that their right to access to food enshrined in the Constitution is realised.

ayandamkhwanazi
July 28, 2015

Health Systems

NHLS whistleblowers targeted, say former employees

Ex-employees of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) allege that former NHLS CEO Dr Saggie Pillay’s tenure at the body was marred by corruption – and that whistleblowers were dealt with swiftly.

ayandamkhwanazi
July 28, 2015

Determinants Of Health, Health

World wastes almost half of all food produced

About 40 percent of the food produced globally is wasted while 795 million people go hungry, according to new research released yesterday (16 July)

Health Systems, News

Gauteng the latest province to admit ambulance shortages

An image of the front end of an ambulance

With just 393 ambulances on Gauteng roads, the province is far from meeting national standards for emergency vehicles despite 49 recently procured ambulances. Now one Eldorado Park family says they have paid the ultimate price for the province’s ambulance shortage.

ayandamkhwanazi and ayandamkhwanazi
June 9, 2015

Health Systems, Mental Health, News

Unregulated old age homes may be on the rise

With only eight government-run old age homes nationwide, unregulated facilities may be preying on the elderly alongside loan sharks and even pensioners’ own families, according to a new South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report.

ayandamkhwanazi
June 5, 2015

Health, Health Systems

NHI: School health teams take screenings to rural children

For the country’s rural children, the revitalisation of school health services could be a lifeline - if doctors and specialists answer the call.

ayandamkhwanazi
June 3, 2015

Health, Health Systems

NHI: Poor conditions scare GPs away

Poor conditions in some National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts are causing general practitioners (GPs) to think twice about working in public health

ayandamkhwanazi
June 2, 2015

Health

[Updated] 500,000 former miners await compensation

The mining houses' Compensation Fund owes R1.5 billion to workers who developed occupational illnesses like silicosis while on the job, according to Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.*

ayandamkhwanazi
May 29, 2015

Health, News

Dying in Joburg a costly venture

Terminally ill patients in Johannesburg will spend about R63,000 in their last days on end of life care – almost three times more patients in some coastal towns, according to Discovery Health’s CEO Dr Jonathan Broomberg.

ayandamkhwanazi
May 28, 2015

Health

Vaccinations could save 20 million children in five years

The world could save 20 million children in the next five years with better access to vaccines, according to Wits Reproductive Health Institute Executive Director Helen Rees.

ayandamkhwanazi
May 23, 2015

Health

Pneumococcal vaccine cuts hospitalisations by 70 percent

New data shows that South Africa's expensive pneumococcal vaccine roll out has cut childhood hospitalisations due to meningitis, pneumonia and rotavirus by about 70 percent in just five years, according to Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.

Health Systems

Department of health spending millions on negligence claims

Multimillion-rand negligence claims against the Department of Health have increased nine-fold since 2013, according to Stellenbosch University professor Ethelwynn Stellenberg.

ayandamkhwanazi
May 6, 2015

Health, Men's Health, News

Study unearths high rates of violence against gay, bi-sexual students

More than one in ten gay or bisexual male students report that they have been the target of campus violence because of their sexual orientation, according to the first national survey of sexual orientation and HIV risk on South African campuses released yesterday.

ayandamkhwanazi
May 5, 2015

Health, Women's Health

Natalspruit Hospital battles cancer screening backlog

East Rand women may be waiting months for life-saving cervical cancer screenings as the new Natalspruit Hospital battles a back log of screenings dating back to July 2014.