Centre for the elderly faces closure
LIMPOPO – Denzhe-Lwamutsha Place of Care in Lwamondo Village, outside Thohoyandou – home to over 100 elderly people, is facing closure.
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Accountability and the right to good food
South Africa has a progressive Constitution, with the right to adequate food counted among our basic human rights. But while there are feeding schemes, food programmes and social grants abound to ensure our people are fed, still millions are going hungry. By Thabo Molelekwa of Health-e News.
SA’s private healthcare ‘not competitive’, Competition Commission finds
The Competition Commission has found that medical aid members have been getting a raw deal and now schemes and healthcare providers have two months to respond to recommendations that there be changes to the way the private healthcare sector operates and that medical aids clarify their offerings.
‘Young people do not like using condoms’
LIMPOPO - Young people who do not like using condoms during sexual intercourse in Vhembe are the main cause behind the high rate of unwanted babies and the spread of sexual transmitted infections such as HIV.
Mthatha residents finally get a cardiology lab
EASTERN CAPE - Residents of the former Transkei area who previously had to travel huge distances to access cardiology services finally have a new cardiology unit at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha.
NHI: It’s not just about the money
While the public health system is desperately under-funded, money alone will not fix it. Yet this is the underlying assumption of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, which serves to force the public and private health systems into a hasty marriage.
Unhealthy offerings at SA’s school tuck shops
Mostly unhealthy food options are sold to South African school children with low nutrient energy dense foods (chips, sweets) and sugar sweetened beverages, this is according to the Scoping study on School tuck shops in South Africa.
Child labour in agriculture is on the rise
Child labour in agriculture is currently on the rise all around the world, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that the trend is undermining efforts to end hunger and poverty.
Managing hypertension during pregnancy
MPUMALANGA - Bongekile Shabalala – a 22-year-old new mother who was diagnosed with high blood pressure at her first antenatal clinic visit – ended up giving birth prematurely because of her condition.
Violated pensioners not reporting abuse
Elderly women who have been sexually abused in rural Limpopo are too afraid to report their cases to the police because they fear further victimisation from their perpetrators and humiliation from the community.
New medical schemes Bill intended to “protect” beneficiaries
On Thursday Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi released to the public the Medical Schemes Amendment Bill which seeks to abolish co-payments, waiting periods, late-joiner penalties and the use of brokers in the industry.
Massive changes proposed to private medical schemes
Two new Bills signal government’s intention to restrict private medical aids and exercise more central control over public health as it moves to establish a single health system by 2026.
Revealed: the corruption behind Gauteng Health crisis
Explosive details of a Special Investigation Unit report on massive corruption within the Gauteng Health Department that was quietly shelved have been revealed civil society organisations keen to expose rot amounting to about R1,2-billion.
Nutrition education material for primary schools
Work is underway to not only teach the school children of Gauteng the basics of balanced and healthy eating, but to also train them to share the information with others.
Wasting food while others are hungry
In South Africa, an average of 12 million people (almost a quarter of the population) go to bed hungry every night – yet our country has the largest proportion of food wastage in Africa.