Mothers should not administer homemade, soap-based enemas to infants, cautions University of Limpopo’s Dr Matsontso Mathebula after a Pretoria infant risked dehydration following her mother’s recent attempt to rid her of tape worms with a bath soap enema.
About 200 activists from civil society organisations spent yesterday canvassing Johannesburg’s inner-city ahead of tomorrow’s march in protest of recent xenophobic violence that is expected to draw 30,000.
Priscilla Mkhwanazi was always her mother’s favourite but being the apple of her mother’s eye came at a high price as she tells OurHealth’s Cynthia Maseko.
More than 30,000 people are expected to attend a Johannesburg march Thursday to protest recent xenophobic violence in the country.
More than 500 activists recently picketed outside the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries' (DAFF) Pretoria offices to demand public consultations on government's latest policy to address hunger.
Soshanguve community members recently came together to install new windows in the home of 67-year-old Daddy Maubane about two years after a storm damaged the large windows in Maubane’s home.
Following weeks of allegedly sporadic access to water in Mabopane’s Central View north of Pretoria, work to upgrade local water lines has been completed.
Shoshanguve mums say they are connecting with the Department of Health’s new MomConnect SMS service.
Sandile Ngcobo’s day starts at 4am. By the time his 16-hour shift as a Pietermaritzburg taxi driver is over, local clinics are closed and that is why Ngcobo says he welcomed the chance to test for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) at work.
Municipal inspectors and surveyors say they are not happy with work done to improve sewage systems in the North West communities of Lebaleng and Makwassie.
Millions of South Africans rely on minibus taxis daily, but South Africa’s most widely used mode of public transport could also be ferrying a deadly passenger.
Botshilu Private Hospital is getting rave reviews from patients six months after its opening.
There is something off at Ben’s Tuck Shop in Phuthaditjhaba, about 70 kms outside Bethlehem and a recent OurHealth visit shows it’s the milk.
Bethlehem community members in the Free State recently marched against tuberculosis (TB) in an effort to promote testing and treatment.
On the heels of the recent South African Human Rights Commission’s hearing on the lack of emergency medical service in the Eastern Cape, OurHealth speaks to one woman who says she has never seen an ambulance in 35 years.
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