Tshwane schools look to curb drug use

Police and community member are looking to get students on the right side of the fight against drugs, nyope and alcohol.
Police and community member are looking to get students on the right side of the fight against drugs, nyope and alcohol.
Construction of a state-of-the-art, 100-bed private hospital has begun in Soshanguve. The project started in March 2013 and the hospital is to completed in 2014.
Since OurHealth reported earlier this year on the appalling toilet conditions at Winterveldt schools in Tshwane some improvements have begun.
Patients who are not receiving chronic anti-retroviral and tuberculosis medications due to stock-outs at clinics are worried that they will develop resistance to their treatment.
Patients and nurses particularly in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Mpumalanga continue to report medicine stock-outs at local clinics, including shortages of antiretroviral medicine.
Epilepsy recently came under the spotlight at the Boekenhout Clinic, the scene of the Tshwane districts first support group. National Epilepsy Day presented an opportunity to create awareness around the condition among heath workers and the community. Facility manager Dorothy…
The clinics around Mabopane and Winterveld areas are out of stock of the antiretroviral medicine, lamivudine (also known as 3TC).