MPUMALANGA - As a celebration of national disability rights awareness month, commemorated from the November 3 to December 3 annually, 30 wheelchairs have been handed over to disabled people in the province.
The Mpumalanga Health Department joined forces recently with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to plan how to tackle malaria transmission in the province.
Monica Deysel (24) of Secunda was a heavy drinker when she fell pregnant at age 18. Both she and her boyfriend continued drinking and smoking throughout her pregnancy, and as a result she gave birth to a baby girl with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).
While dental services at government health facilities are free, the fact that they are limited, many poor people in rural communities are unable to make use of them or are not aware of them. It’s an issue that is receiving some attention as September is oral hygiene month.
A lay counsellor working for the Department of Health at the Kanyamazane Clinic outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga appeared in court this week on allegations of stealing medication from the clinic.
Aids activist Elsie Simangele Mashego from Daantjie outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga has died of cervical cancer.
Despite ongoing campaigns to encourage regular cervical cancer checks, women in rural Mpumalanga are hesitant to comply and many believe it is not worth going for their pap smears because they never receive their results.
Two new clinics are transforming the lives of rural communities in Mpumalanga, where people no longer have had to travel long distances to get medical attention
A gay-friendly clinic was launched this week in Ermelo in Mpumalanga amid a warning from the provincial health MEC that homophobic staff needed to improve their attitude.
A woman in labour asked medical staff to help her, but was allegedly told she was in false labour.
Confidentiality is one of the cornerstones of health care. So when patients’ private records with sensitive information from a local clinic were found strewn across a local dumpster in Standerton, the town was in uproar.
Mpumalanga’s Department of Education has embarked on a programme to fight discrimination against pupils with chronic illness such as epilepsy.
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