While locals are still reeling about the suicide of 14-year-old Klara Göttert, who took her life at Northgate Mall this week, another mother in the Free State’s rural town of Bethlehem is also mourning the death by suicide of her 18-year-old daughter.
The Nyembezi family alleges that the Natalspruit Hospital failed to attend to their dying daughter after what seemed like a common cold turned deadly.
Rheumatic heart disease week is marked from 4 to 10 August. Read about one boy's battle with this disease.
One in four people go hungry in South Africa every day, and the public needs to ensure that their right to access to food enshrined in the Constitution is realised.
Mom gets toe amputated for no reason when wrongly diagnosed as diabetic, claims son.
In April 2014, the Free State health department terminated the services of around 3,800 community healthworkers (CHW) – apparently for being too old and under-educated - despite many years’ service supplementing the province’s inadequate care for its sick.
To commemorate Youth Month in June, Health-e News is broadcasting a five-part adolescent health series on Morning Live (SABC 2). This insert – the fifth in the series – follows Mpho, a lesbian youth, as she learns to be more open about her sexuality.
Pensioners living in rural Eastern Cape villages say they have never seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly combination of poor management and budget shortfalls keeps ambulances out of rural communities.
An anaesthetist is not only responsible for putting you to sleep before surgery - they also have to keep you alive during and 24-hours after an operation.
Health-e News spent a day with an anaesthesiologist to find out exactly what they do while you’re sleeping to earn their R3000 p/h paycheck.
To commemorate Youth Month in June, Health-e News is broadcasting a five-part adolescent health series on Morning Live (SABC 2). This insert – the fourth in the series – follows Lebohang Tieho Neko, a youth who has recently managed to overcome his Nyaope addiction.
A 32-year-old Free State man who sent a video of himself and his under-age girlfriend having sex to friends and teachers at the girl’s school could be in hot water, says SA Police Service National Spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo.
Poverty-stricken children in the Free State are being forced into prostitution, often by their families, in order to be able to eat.
Overburdened medical staff who are not trained in ordering stock could be contributing to the stock out problem that has hit SA
HIV and tuberculosis (TB) drug stock outs have hit about 14 percent of health facilities nationwide in the last nine months, according to a new study released today by civil society coalition the Stop Stock Outs Project.
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