‘Please help me save my mother,’ son pleads with N. Cape Health authorities
Mom gets toe amputated for no reason when wrongly diagnosed as diabetic, claims son.
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Stuck in a limbo, Free State’s community healthworkers struggle to get jobs back
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.
Video: ‘I’m just a girl who is attracted to another girl’
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.
The call unanswered: Emergency services ‘non-existent’ in E.Cape communities
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.
While you were sleeping
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.
Slideshow: A day in the life of a anaesthesiologist
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.
Video: ‘I turned into a monster’
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.
Revenge porn distributors to face the law – SAPS
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.
‘I sleep with older men so that we can eat’
Poverty-stricken children in the Free State are being forced into prostitution, often by their families, in order to be able to eat.
Staff shortages contribute to stock outs
Overburdened medical staff who are not trained in ordering stock could be contributing to the stock out problem that has hit SA
Drug stock outs hit more than one in 10 health facilities
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.
Gauteng the latest province to admit ambulance shortages
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.
Unregulated old age homes may be on the rise
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.
SA performs world’s first cost-effective skin transplant
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.
Dying in Joburg a costly venture
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.