Bloemfontein recently came to a standstill as community health workers (CHW) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) marched to the magistrate’s court in support of 118 health workers arrested in July last year.
As 129 Free State community healthcare workers and Treatment Action Campaign (TACT members are due back in court on charges related to July 2014 protests, we take a look at the faces and stories of those on trial.
With the construction of a promised dam delayed, residents of Kestell, Free State say that the lack of water risks their lives and their livelihoods.
After refusing to plead guilty to charges, health workers and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists are expected back at the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court in October following a postponement.
As activists and community health workers await the verdict in a court case stemming from July protests regarding allegedly poor Free State health services, OurHealth’s Lungile Thamela speaks to Free State residents about health in the troubled province.
AIDS lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is expected to lay formal charges against Free State Health MEC, Benjamin ‘Benny’ Malakoane today following allegations of corruption.
Another 50 Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members have been arrested following a second wave of protest over what the TAC alleges is a “health crisis” in the Free State.
Unpaid health workers staged a night vigil and sit in at the offices of the Free State premier and MEC for health as the province’s health system continues to spiral – and the Free State Department of Health remains largely silent, say activists.
Hospitals turning away patients, unpaid health workers and stock outs of more more than 200 essential medicines and medical supplies – symptoms of a provincial health system that is imploding, say activists.
It was supposed to be a time of celebration but, for Cebile Zulu, passing matric coincided with devastating news.
On 11 February, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) issued a statement regarding alleged death threats received by Free State health activists following recent civil society reports.
Hospital staff recently discovered a man dead in his car after allegedly being turned away from Mofumahadi Manapo Mopeli Regional Hospital (MMMRH), according to the man’s family.
The Free State has slashed the deaths of women in childbirth by 43% in one year, thanks mainly to making ambulances available to take those with labour complications to hospitals.
BETHLEHEM. ' A 27-year-old Bethlehem woman, Nthatisi Tladi, told OurHealth about the service she has experienced from the Mphohadi Clinic in the Free State over the last 10 years.
BETHLEHEM. ' Poor, marginalised communities in the rural area near this Free State town have been unhappy with the health services they have been receiving from a mobile unit from the Bethlehem Clinic. Patients' complaints range from unreliability of the service to reduced amount of medication being dispensed.
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