Mpophomeni ' In 2000 the Ethembeni Care Centre was established by Dr Rouen Bruni who, along with about 10 home-based caregivers, provided medical assistance to people in the community, distributed food parcels and also comforted patients through prayer.
Soshanguve ' A drive by civil society organisations to promote male medical circumcision have seen more men and boys over the age of 12 reporting to the local KT Motubatsi clinic for this procedure.
Bethlehem ' A 5-year-old girl died in the casualty ward at Phekolong Hospital in Bethlehem this week while nurses scurried around trying to find a bed for her in the casualty ward.
Lusikisiki ' This week Mtshana Mvlisi spoke to Nonyameko Ntiyo about her long and at times difficult journey back to health.
Lusikisiki- Twelve clinics and two hospitals that fall under the Qaukeni local district are continuing to experience critical drug shortages and stock outs.
Vhembe - Villagers from Matavhela and Mufulwi have had their tap water supplies restored after alerting OurHealth that they had to rely on unsafe rain and river water.
OurHealth: Tshwane ' The provincial Department of Health in Gauteng recently celebrated World Stroke Day at the KT Motubatse Centre in the township of Soshanguve, in Tshwane, Gauteng.
OurHealth: Vhembe ' Two local clinics are experiencing critical drug shortages, with both reporting that they are at times only able to dispense Panado.
OurHealth: Vhembe - Three out of 10 Zimbabwean women are gang-raped when they try to cross the border through the Limpopo River to South Africa, according to a church leader who runs two shelters in Mussina.
OurHealth: Madwaleni ' Local chiefs joined forces with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in a drive to remedy the desperate situation at Madwaleni hospital where a lone doctor is trying to hold the fort.
OurHealth: Lusikisiki - Several attempts to prevent the closure of Village Clinic, which treats a large number of people living with HIV, have failed and patients were met with locked doors on Tuesday morning.
OurHealth. ' A community in Tshwane is taking charge of their health situation and creating awareness of National Health Insurance (NHI) efforts that are taking place in their area.
OurHealth - Itlotliseng Primary School learners in Tseki village, Phuthaditjhaba (Qwa-Qwa) in the Free State have to every day deal with dirty toilets and unreliable access to water.
OurHealth. - A group of grade eight learners from the Paul Roux Intermediate School in the town of Paul Roux in the Free State were visited by a nurse as part of the Integrated School Health Programme of the National Health Insurance (NHI).
OurHealth - Nombulelo Manala Lubhelu (45) of Lusikisiki-kwaGqwarhu location has taken the tough decision of declining lifesaving antiretrovirals (ARVs) because she is simply too poor to buy food and does not want to take her medication on an empty stomach.
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