Heavy rains have damaged already inadequate water infrastructure in Vhembe in Limpopo. The long wait for running water is making it impossible for community members to follow hygiene-based anti-Covid-19 practices like washing hands.
This World Kidney Day, experts explain the links between a person's risk for kidney cancer and factors including "obesity, high blood pressure, workplace exposure to certain substances and smoking."
On International Women’s day, Limpopo MEC for Social Development Nkakareng Rakgoale lamented how vulnerable the pandemic has made women. She also commended the women who have been at the forefront of the crisis.
This Limpopo cancer nurse got the Covid-19 vaccine this week. She believes the vaccine will not only protect her, but the children diagnosed with cancer who she takes care of.
The Limpopo Department of Health says a strike planned for 8 March is unprotected. Workers who participate could face disciplinary action. But health workers from seven unions refuse to budge on a dispute over working hours.
As the demand for oxygen soars across the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation says there is a growing shortage in Africa and Latin America.
With the AstraZeneca vaccine about to be sold to the AU, health authorities are hoping the J&J vaccine does the trick.
South African healthcare workers to participate in a stay-away strike called by SAFTU to voice their grievances despite Covid-19 concerns.
Cancer turned her life upside down as a teenager, but Charlene Nadine Motshegwe wants children to know they have the strength to beat this dreaded disease.
Amid the pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa used his annual State of the Nation Address to announce more Covid-19 vaccines and the extension of the R350 relief grant.
After the AstraZeneca vaccine proved ineffective against the new coronavirus variant, health workers will now receive the single-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine. More vaccines will also arrive sooner than expected, the health ministry announced.
Traditional healers say they are on the frontlines in the treatment and prevention when it comes to the coronavirus and now they want first dibs at the vaccine.
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