A day in the life of a clinic queue
OurHealth citizen journalists line up at Gauteng and Limpopo clinics to see just how long clinic lines can get.
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Free State activists, health worker case postponed
After refusing to plead guilty to charges, health workers and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists are expected back at the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court in October following a postponement.
Free State: Postcards from a troubled province
As activists and community health workers await the verdict in a court case stemming from July protests regarding allegedly poor Free State health services, OurHealth’s Lungile Thamela speaks to Free State residents about health in the troubled province.
AIDS lobby to lay charges against Free State MEC for Health
AIDS lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is expected to lay formal charges against Free State Health MEC, Benjamin ‘Benny’ Malakoane today following allegations of corruption.
NHLS unsure where to send bill, suspends services
Billing errors and lack of payment have been blamed for the National Health Laboratory Service’s (NHLS) recent suspension of services to some Gauteng clinics.
Medicine availability improves after depot takeover
The North West Department of Health has credited a government takeover of the province’s only medical depot with helping stabilise drug supplies in the province.
Klerksdorp joins fight against Ebola
Klerksdorp residents are joining other South Africans pitching in to help fight West Africa’s on-going Ebola epidemic.
In-Depth Report: Mpumalanga’s deadly debt
Last October, the Mpumalanga Department of Health was placed under the administration of the provincial finance department to save it from collapse. Health-e News looks at the costs of the province’s deadly debt.
Medicines go missing in Mpumalanga
Vital medicines such as insulin for diabetics, children’s vaccines and HIV and tuberculosis treatment are running short in Mpumalanga, which has been plagued by medicine shortages for most of this year.
NHI pilot district “shows signs of collapse”
The Mpumalanga Department of Health is crumbling as the province struggles with deadly shortages of equipment, medicine and staff.
Emergency medical services leave patients stranded
Women in Mpumalanga are teaching themselves to deliver babies because there is such a dire shortage of ambulances, which take up to six hours to respond to calls.
Thousands face disability as orthopaedic services collapse
Mpumalanga has the country’s highest rate of road accident deaths, but when survivors are pulled from the wreckage, there are just four doctors in the province who can mend their bones – and the wait to see them may kill and maim many.
Cabinet bans travellers from high-risk Ebola countries
Travellers from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia not allowed into South Africa unless they are returning residents
Presentations: South Africa’s HIV, TB investment case
Experts' presentations on South Africa's HIV "investment case" made at a July consultation organised by the country's national AIDS council.
Mothers deliver in filing room
Staff at Limpopo’s Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe say they have run out of room to house new mums and babies or guarantee patients’ privacy.