Criminals target Jouberton creche
Months after Health-e news reported how children and staff at a Jouberton crèche lived in fear of criminal activity in the area, criminals have struck again.
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Patients, staff stranded as protests encircle KZN hospital
Staff and patients at Bethesda District Hospital have been left stranded as local communities protest water shortages. Community members say patients have been unable to access treatment and emergency cases have been diverted since protests started Wednesday.
Report: Ministerial task team report on HPCSA
The nine-page executive summary of the almost 100 page report outlines problems at the Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) unearthed by a ministerial task team convened by Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
Nyaope “zombies” plague small Free State town
Mild mannered youth turned knife-wielding “zombies” – it might seem like a scene out of a horror film but it is real for some residents living outside the small Free State town of Bethlehem as the picturesque dorpie is the latest to fall under the spell of South Africa’s cheap street drug nyaope.
Love, stigma and HIV
A stroke prompted 41-year-old Andrew Matekane to test for HIV and like many, dealing with his new diagnosis was not easy for him or his partner.
Mpumalanga municipality ‘running out of graveyard space’
Lekwa Local Municipality graveyards are allegedly filling up and the area’s high HIV prevalence rate are is to blame, according to Lekwa Executive Mayor Linda Dhlamini.
Report: Integrating mental health into primary health care in low, middle-income countries
In this British Journal of Psychiatry supplement, the Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME) outlines district mental health care plans from five low- and middle-income countries.
Growing TB-diabetes epidemics gets world attention
On the eve of the first global summit on TB and diabetes, experts warn of huge fallout from TB-diabetes interaction
Access delayed is access denied at Village Clinic
Health-e News broke the story of the Eastern Cape's Village Clinic in 2012. Ntsiki Mpulo re-visists the clinic for the NSP Review and finds upgrades to the clinic remain long overdue.
Holy Cross patients ‘dying for no reason’ at beleaguered hospital
Medicine stock outs and staff shortages are just some of the reasons Holy Cross Hospital staff say patients may be dying unnecessarily at the beleaguered Eastern Cape hospital, writes Ntsiki Mpulo for the NSP Review.
Fact Sheet: Rural Health 2015
Compiled by the Rural Health Advocacy Project, the third annual fact sheet presents and update on the status of rural health in South Africa.
Report: WHO Global Tuberculosis Report
The World Health Organisation’s latest annual report on tuberculosis (TB) reveals that the world has met the Millennium Development Goal of reducing trends in new cases of TB but the disease still killed 1.5 million people in 2014.
Bulk of world’s MDR-TB cases undiagnosed – WHO
The world may be losing the war against the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) as the bulk of patients with multidrug-resistant TB go undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest TB report.
Human breast milk banks on the rise
Kuruman’s Tshwaragano District Hospital is set to become home to South Africa’s latest human breast milk bank as another bank is reportedly slated to open in Limpopo.
KZN scholarships could be slashed due to high fee costs
For the first time in 14 years, KZN’s Umthombo Youth Development Foundation may not award scholarships to rural students hoping to study health sciences next year as fees increase by almost double the rate of inflation.