Hospital gets incubators after deaths
The Health Department has ordered new incubators for Jubilee Hospital in North West after an exposé in The Star revealed that five babies had died due to faulty incubators.
Dipuo Sedibe
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Five babies die from faulty incubators
Five premature babies died this week at Jubilee Hospital in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria '€“ allegedly because of broken incubators.
Lack of neurologists prevents effective epilepsy treatment
The countrywide shortage of neurologists is preventing people with epilepsy from getting proper care in the public sector.
TAC: TB neglected
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Fighting the terrible twins
The plump young woman sits on a wooden bench in a room at Hout Bay Clinic. Nothing in her unassuming demeanour offers any clue that many people'€™s health and ultimately lives depend on her.
Economic development equals more cancer
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