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.
With just 393 ambulances on Gauteng roads, the province is far from meeting national standards for emergency vehicles despite 49 recently procured ambulances. Now one Eldorado Park family says they have paid the ultimate price for the province’s ambulance shortage.
With only eight government-run old age homes nationwide, unregulated facilities may be preying on the elderly alongside loan sharks and even pensioners’ own families, according to a new South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report.
Burns survivors have new hope after a Stellenbosch doctor performed the first successful skin culture transplant using skin “grown” with a novel technique that cost a fraction of the price of other skin culturing procedures.
Terminally ill patients in Johannesburg will spend about R63,000 in their last days on end of life care – almost three times more patients in some coastal towns, according to Discovery Health’s CEO Dr Jonathan Broomberg.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has blamed manufacturers for shortages of medicines including HIV and tuberculosis drugs, but a civil society coalition has alleged 80 percent of stock outs are due to poor management.
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