Mental illness a silent killer
Sam Segopolo needed help – that everyone knew. When he did not get treatment for what his family and community say was a mental illness – it may have killed him.
Our Health
OurHealth is Health-e’s network of community journalists based in rural villages and townships across South Africa. We bring you grassroots reporting from the people who cover the communities they live in.
Read More » Mental illness a silent killer
Myths and dreams: The realities of epilepsy in rural South Africa
When Lusanda Ngwenya, 13, comes to – he is disorientated. He looks around at the faces of concerned family members and then becomes aware of a new pain somewhere on his body – maybe a knocked limb or a bitten tongue. He has just woken up from one of the seizures that accompany his epilepsy.
A mother’s take on medical male circumcision
Sibongile Madi talks to OurHealth citizen journalist Sphiwe Ntuli about her decision to medically circumcise her 4-year-old son.
TAC members form home-based care organisation
Member of the AIDS lobby organisation the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have formed a home-based care organisation to help increase communities’ knowledge about HIV treatment east of Johannesburg.
Man claims mother waited too long for bed
A Centurion man claims a Pretoria hospital did not give his mother a bed fast enough, but nurses disagree.
Shoshanguve opens new private hospital
Shoshanguve recently opened its new, 100-bed hospital just one year after construction on the facility started.
Voices from an epidemic
South Africa ranks among the world’s top 20 countries hit hardest by tuberculosis (TB), which remains a leading cause of death in the country. OurHealth talks to patients who have survived.
Baby allegedly stolen from Nelspruit hospital
New mothers at Nelspruit’s Rob Ferreira Hospital are on edge following the alleged abduction of a baby girl from the hospital this past weekend.
Soweto clinic hit by nationwide HIV medication stock out
Soweto’s Mofolo Clinic has been hit by a nationwide stock out of a drug needed to prevent HIV infection in babies.
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.
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.
Wheelchair frees house-bound Jouberton woman
When Martha Bosaye was diagnosed with gangrene, her world shrunk to the confines of four walls. With a new wheelchair, Bosaye is set to feel the warmth of the sun again.
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.