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The Department of Health recently published draft regulations and guidelines governing complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs). We have not done an exhaustive analysis of the proposed changes. We are posting preliminary observations to spur discussion and public engagement with these important documents. By Marcus Low.
OPINION: To ensure that the debate on the national health insurance is informed by facts, it is essential to dissect the financial issues.
South Africa will move to an exclusive breastfeeding strategy and discontinue the practice of providing formula feed through hospitals and clinics, health minster Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced yesterday (TUES).
OPINION:Misinformed scaremongering seems to have been the order of the day since the release of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper. South Africans have been subjected to a barrage of reports about how the proposed NHI is unaffordable, how it will increase the cost of labour and will push the economy into recession. by Di McIntyre.
Formula feed for infants should only be handed out if prescribed by a medical doctor, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi told a meeting on breastfeeding today (MONDAY).
OPINION: I am visiting the University of Cape Town from Australia ‘ this is the fourth consecutive year I have come to this physically beautiful city ‘ and I see in the media recently all sorts of comments on the proposed NHI. These comments are all almost hostile. But then these comments do not come from all sorts of people. By Gavin Mooney.
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South Africa / Johannesburg, Aug 12, GNA ‘ Ms Patricia Lambert, Director of International Legal Consortium for Campaign for Tobacco – Free Kids, has urged the Government of Ghana to consider the health of her people and speed up the tobacco control legislation.
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is determined to revolutionise South Africa’s health system and his short-term sights are set on the quality of healthcare delivery in the public sector and pricing in the private sector.
The Democratic Alliance has released a report on the assessment of top management at public hospitals in South Africa, which was compiled by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
Pregnant women seeking healthcare in Eastern Cape government facilities are facing abuse and substandard care placing them at high risk of death and injury, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has revealed.
‘The case of change in health care financing in South Africa through the introduction of mandatory NHI health is both strong and urgent. The case for change should also be considered in the light of the lack of achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for health, and the stagnation and even deterioration in mortality rates and life expectancy.’ ‘ Confidential National Health Insurance (NHI) Policy Proposal (February 2011)
Every electoral ward is set to have a primary health care, nurse-driven team established as part of the National Health Insurance (NHI) system and specialist doctor teams will be assigned to districts where maternal and child mortality is high.