Health e News
- ///Our Health
The community protested, activists threatened legal action and a settlement was reached. Seven years later, the newly built permanent Village Clinic is opened.
- ///Our Health
“Ever since I moved back into my house six year ago, life has been difficult,” says Mita Mokape.
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The Democratic Alliance has been fiercely opposed to the National Health Insurance Bill. But the official opposition party’s alternative leaves many unanswered questions. Eleanor Whyle, Manya van Ryneveld and Leanne Brady break it down.
- ///Our Health
“As we were being discharged, the nurse told my partner and me that we must pay the R621 because we are not South African,” says a young mother.
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When Motheo Lengoasa was referred to a psychiatric hospital for depression, she refused to go, saying she was not crazy. But, she realises that was a misconception writes Pamela Mkhize.
- ///Our Health
As more and more people turn to community gardening; an elderly former teacher has already been doing it for the past eight years to encourage people to eat healthier food.
- ///Our Health
“The health of the land is linked to people’s health and future.” This is Khaya Mposula’s ethos, an organic farmer in the Eastern Cape.
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“They can’t read, they can’t write, and actually they are in the wrong school,” says Angela Salter, founder of the Adonai Crisis Centre which looks after children whose parents abuse alcohol and drugs.
- ///Our Health
Loved ones are finding it hard to move on a year after three firefighters died while trying to distinguish a fire at the Bank of Lisbon building, which housed the Gauteng health department.
- ///Our Health
Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) teaches learners in Soweto and Tembisa about understanding more about the food they eat, writes Pamela Mkhize.
- ///Our Health
The addition of emergency vehicles to the Eastern Cape fleet is welcomed but a trade union says more staff is also needed.
- ///Our Health
Members of the country’s biggest medical aid scheme — government employees — are concerned about the implementation of universal healthcare.