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.
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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.
Love, suspicion & HIV discordancy
Sindi Letlala* and her 3-year-old son Thato are HIV positive. Sindi’s husband of 12 years and Thato’s father, Thabiso, is not. She talks to OurHealth about dealing with discordancy.
Orlando West clinic without running water, working toilets
Orlando West’s Mandela Sisulu Clinic near the Phefeni Railway Station has no working taps or toilets. Patients say conditions in the clinic named after the struggle stalwarts are disgusting.
South African doctor on Ebola’s front lines
Medecines Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor South African Stefan Kruger recently touched down in the eye of the Ebola storm where entire households are being erased from their family trees by the disease.
Quake closes North West clinics, nursing college
This week’s 5.3 magnitude earthquake has closed at least three clinics in Klerksdorp and North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo is unsure when at least two clinics will re-open.
Civil society groups threaten to sue Eastern Cape Dept of Health
Activists from more than 30 civil society organisations have again threatened to take the Eastern Cape Department of Health to court over alleged failure to fix the provincial health services.
South Africa to assist in Ebola response
In just days, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) will deploy a high tech mobile lab to assist West African countries in combating the Ebola outbreak. The move comes as South Africa and the region continues to prepare for possible cases.
Opinion: It’s time we caught up to HIV science
The country’s first openly HIV-positive Mr Gay South Africa finalist Charles Jacobs asks, HIV science has changed but have we? The latest court case against the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) may be a sign that we haven’t.
Controversial policy to regulate doctors on hold
The Department of Health has decided to shelve plans to regulate where doctors could practice – at least temporarily.
SA Clinicians Society mourns deaths on Flight 17
Dutch HIV expert Joep Lange, killed on Flight 17, was a 'friend of Africa'