Diepsloot kids get food boost
Almost three-quarters of Diepsloot residents live below the poverty line, while over half of adults are unemployed, according to Kliptown and Diepsloot study done by Planact.
Thabo Molelekwa
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Spare your babies from salt – and hypertension
Parents should give their babies food with little or no salt to ensure that they don’t grow up with a taste for unhealthy salty food.
Some tuckshops continue to sell polony ‘kotas’
Despite the deadly listeriosis outbreak, tuck shops close to schools in Duduza are still serving school children ‘kotas’ with processed meat.
Tembisa Hospital battles massive overcrowding
Patients at Tembisa Hospital in Ekurhuleni are complaining that their health is in danger as the hospital is overcrowded making infection control difficult.
Township wait 20 years for a new hospital
Despite plans for the building of Daveyton Hospital having been approved in 2006, 11 years have passed and it has yet to become a reality.
Kids consume up to 200% more sugar than recommended
Liquid sugar is easily absorbed, and most of the sugar from sweetened beverages has no nutritional value beyond the sugar content.
Jeppe Clinic finally re-opened
After being closed for more than six months for renovations, the Jeppe Clinic has finally been fully renovated.
Esidimeni compensation likely unaffordable to Gauteng health department
No action has been taken against 11 health officials implicated in Esidimeni crisis, former Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu who made the decision that led to 141 deaths remains illusive and the “bankrupt” Gauteng Health Department is currently unable to fund a compensation ruling.
Gauteng health finances in crisis
The crisis at the Gauteng Health Department deepens by the day as unpaid suppliers withhold services and legal claims mount, while services are paralysed because bank accounts have been attached and phone lines have been suspended.
Cape Town emerges as SA’s healthiest city
Cape Town is South Africa’s healthiest city with the highest number of healthy-weight people who buy the most vegetables and fruit.
Gauteng partnership to provide pads to a million girls
A newly forged partnership between government and a private company is set to see free sanitary towels provided to 500 schools in Gauteng over the next five years.
Jeppe Clinic renovations ‘on track’ for October 1 re-opening
Revelations that Jeppe Clinic – closed down by the Gauteng Health Department in April for urgent renovations – may not be ready to re-open on October 1 have sparked high level action.