LIMPOPO - After four months battling to recover from childbirth due to ongoing bleeding caused by failed efforts by nurses to stich her properly after giving birth, a young Limpopo mother has finally been helped.
Community health care workers, unhappy about how they are treated by the Gauteng Department of Health, took to the streets on Tuesday and marched to the department’s offices to raise their concerns.
Health-e has the good fortune to welcome a number of new staff members over the past few months. Gill Gifford joins us as news editor.
LOUIS TRICHARD - Ongoing bleeding and repeatedly failed efforts to stitch her up have left a young Limpopo woman battling to recover from childbirth, as the Health Department promises to step in and help.
Scholars and academics from leading universities around the world have added their voices to the call for the implementation of a tax on sugary drinks in South Africa.
Mothers in Vhembe, Limpopo are crying for help because their children – particularly young girls – are using skin bleaching products.
Scores of Ekurhuleni women gathered together recently to join in a 4km fun walk – the first annual Breast Cancer Awareness Walk aimed at creating an awareness of the illness in the local community.
There is a “nightmare of underfunding” for tuberculosis (TB), described by experts as “the greatest infectious disease killer on the planet”.
A R630-million programme aimed at training 600 innovative leaders to address inequality in the health sector has been launched. The US-based Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) this week committed itself to training 30 young and mid-career people every year over the next…
Almost a quarter of the world’s population is infected with ‘latent’ tuberculosis (TB) - a dormant form of the disease, threatening the World Health Organisation’s aim to fully eliminate TB by 2050.
After feeling ill for months, 16-year-old Sinethemba Kuse received the news that she had multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from her local clinic in Khayelitsha outside of Cape Town in December last year.
Kuruman – a small town in the Northern Cape – has become a hot spot for human trafficking, with young women and children being targeted and in some cases even murdered.
Poor service levels at the Charles Johnson Memorial Gateway Clinic in KwaZulu Natal’s Umzinyathi district has been ongoing for so long that it is almost accepted as the clinic’s culture. A shortage of nurses and a confusing number system for patient queues are the main issues impacting heavily on both staff and clinic visitors.
Exposure to infectious patients, high HIV rates and a lack of ventilation in facilities are some of the reasons healthcare workers in South Africa have the one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) infection rates in the world.
The Department of Education in Limpopo has introduced feeding schemes at all rural schools in the province in an effort to promote healthy eating habits among learners, yet many children are choosing unhealthy food sold by the hawkers outside the school…
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