A family member of a patient who died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy has suggested amnesty be given to implicated non-governmental organisation (NGO) officials in the interests of “getting answers”.
EASTERN CAPE – Learners enrolled to write their matric exams in the OR Tambo Coastal District (previously known as Lusikisiki) are not confident that they will achieve good marks in mathematics.
OPINION: Robert Mugabe had his ‘Des van Rooyen moment’ last week, when he was briefly appointed as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador for NCDs, then had the position rescinded yesterday after a huge international outcry. But what was the WHO thinking when it appointed him?
Health-e News Service is deeply saddened by the death of Health Ministry spokesperson Joe Maila. We have worked very well with Joe over many years.
Motivated by the extreme poverty and hunger she sees around her every day in the Alexandra areas, 24-year-old Phindile Mlotshwa has dreamed up a solution.
LIMPOPO = When the Nkowankowa Magistrate Court granted bail to the doctor accused of raping her 17-year-old daughter during a medical consultation, the child’s mother wept.
Services at the Masakhane Clinic in Alexandra have been severely disrupted as the staff has taken to protesting against what they believe is unfair treatment by the Gauteng Health Department.
The medical doctor accused of raping a 17-year-old patient during a consultation last week recently has had his bail application delayed after a second rape charge was added to his docket.
Two thirds of all patients taking one of the newest and most revolutionary anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs, bedaquiline, in the world are in South Africa.
LIMPOPO – Months after her daughter was murdered in an act of domestic violence, Joyce Rasilavhi said the arrest of the man who allegedly killed Portia Rasilavhi, 35, has re-opened wounds.
Forget the national obsession with matric. Over three quarters of South African kids under the age of two don’t get the right nutrition – and this puts them on the back foot developmentally for the rest of their lives.
A general practitioner accused of raping a 17-year-old patient during a medical consultation at his surgery has appeared in court and been remanded in custody.
As National Nutrition Week 2017 comes to an end on Sunday (15 October) the Department of Health (DoH) has urged all South Africans to make a conscious decision to make water their drink of choice.
Day three of the Life Esidimeni alternative dispute resolution was fraught with frustrations and characterised by dodging, vague answers and unsatisfactory witness testimony.
Cape Town is South Africa’s healthiest city with the highest number of healthy-weight people who buy the most vegetables and fruit.
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