Limpopo youth pitch water-saving cell phones to world
Imagine if you could save litres of water with the touch of a button. Limpopo learners have and recently presented the innovative idea to the world at the Stockholm Junior Water Prize.
New ambulances for Limpopo
The province has received 60 new ambulances and another 40 ambulances worth more than R40 million are expected to be distributed between the province’s five districts with a year.
Load shedding, winter expected to fuel burn injuries
A new, viral social media campaign is encouraging South Africans to “burn for burns” as doctors warn that cold weather and load shedding are likely to prompt a spike in burn injuries this winter.
Safer loos for Limpopo school
Teachers and children are celebrating new, safer toilets at one Limpopo school as the province slowly revamps school sanitation following the horrific pit latrine drowning of 6-year-old Michael Komape.
People living with disabilities urged to keep fit
A recent sporting event in Limpopo encourages the disabled to exercise to keep healthy.
‘Sexual abuse of disabled a big concern’
Special Olympics South Africa has called on local communities to fight to stop the scourge of sexual abuse perpetrated against the disabled.
‘You’re fat’ doctors wrongly tell mother with post-pregnancy hernia
A mother of five in Limpopo alleges she has been sent from pillar to post for almost three years in her desperate attempt to get her hernia properly treated.
Limpopo concerned about pharmacist shortage
Limpopo’s Department of Health and Social Development is urging students to study pharmacy to address the shortage of professionals hard felt by rural communities.
Limpopo mental health patients demand equal rights
Patients using local mental health services in Limpopo’s Tshiombo village say they deserve to be treated with respect while accessing treatment.
Limpopo women get moving for better health
More than 300 from Limpopo’s Vhembe District recently got walking for better health.
Donald Fraser Hospital goes a week without water
Donald Fraser Hospital recently went a without running water for a week after a pipe burst.
Man sent from pillar to post for mystery condition
Ntodeni Kwinda says he has been sent from one health facility to another but no one can say why his cheek has continued to swell painfully for four years.