New hospital planned for Mpumalanga
About R569 million has been budgeted for a brand new state-of-the art hospital for the Bethal community, which falls under the Govan Mbeki municipal district in Mpumalanga.
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Mpumalanga Health Department working hard to stop malaria
The Mpumalanga Health Department joined forces recently with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to plan how to tackle malaria transmission in the province.
Mpumalanga women failing to go for cervical cancer checks
Despite ongoing campaigns to encourage regular cervical cancer checks, women in rural Mpumalanga are hesitant to comply and many believe it is not worth going for their pap smears because they never receive their results.
Mpumalanga investigates case of negligence
A woman in labour asked medical staff to help her, but was allegedly told she was in false labour.
Mpumalanga holds first people’s health assembly
Mpumalanga recently welcomed its first provincial People’s Health Assembly as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and others continue to bemoan staff shortages.
Mpumalanga school health programme battles parents, budgets
The Mpumalanga Department of Health is looking to take school health services to more of the province’s children, but parents and budgets may stand in its way.
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.
Mpumalanga learners ‘beaten daily for anything with pipes, sticks’
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has said there has been a “rise in incidents of corporal punishment in schools across the country” after it has received reports of the physical and verbal abuse of learners in at least seven Mpumalanga schools.
Mpumalanga takes health screenings to commuters
When taxi drivers work 16-hour days, health often takes a back seat, which is why the Mpumalanga Department of Health is bring health screenings to taxi drivers and commuters alike.
Mpumalanga launches service delivery improvement project
Mpumalanga has launched Operation Vuka Sisebente to improve coordination of service delivery between departments by launching the “war room” concept that has become the centre of KwaZulu-Natal’s HIV response.
Mpumalanga opens new community health centre
The Mpumalanga Department of Health has unveiled a state-of-the-art maternity ward as part of its new community health centre near Standerton.
Implant spices up Mpumalanga mum’s bedroom
For Pretty Nhlabathi, switching to government’s new birth control implant spiced up life in the bedroom – and gave her a choice about baby number four.
By the numbers: National Health Insurance in Mpumalanga
It has been two years since Mpumalanga started its National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot site. Now the provincial department of health lays out progress in the pilot district.
Treatment Action Campaign pickets Mpumalanga Clinic
To mark World AIDS Day, the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) Mpumalanga branch picketed outside a local clinic as the AIDS lobby continues to complain about poor service delivery.
Mpumalanga looks to strengthen health services through private-public partnerships
Eskom recently donated the first of two buses to be used to expand the school health programme in Mpumalanga. Now, the province may also be courting the private sector to ramp up HIV counselling and testing (HCT).