Council refuses to register plastic surgeon after 8 years of free service
For the past eight years, Kenyan Dr Michael Rebeiro has been treating South African patients for free while he specialised as a plastic surgeon at Wits University.
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Edenvale Hospital patients sleep on floor
Fazila Smith said she recently spent four days sleeping on the floor of Edenvale Hospital after being admitted for blood clots. Democratic Alliance Member of Provincial Legislature and Shadow Health MEC Jack Bloom says Smith was not the only one.
Mpumalanga learners ‘beaten daily for anything with pipes, sticks’
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has said there has been a “rise in incidents of corporal punishment in schools across the country” after it has received reports of the physical and verbal abuse of learners in at least seven Mpumalanga schools.
Where there are no ambulances
In the Eastern Cape, 60-year-old men and women report never having seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly mix of management and money fuel poor access to emergency medical services.
Your genes could predict your future, but would you want them to?
As doctors increasingly using genetic tests to predict future health, some might not like what they find gazing into science’s new crystal ball.
National inquiry to be launched into emergency medical services
The South African Human Rights Commission will launch a national investigation into the state of emergency medical services (EMS) after finding just 200 of about 416 Eastern Cape public ambulances are functional in the province of 6.5 million people.
Slideshow: Poor E. Cape EMS services matter of life, death
The poor access to emergency medical services in the Eastern Cape may be tantamount to a denial of the right to health, according to a South African Human Rights Commission report released yesterday. We look at what this means for life and death in the province in this photo slideshow.
Clinic committees idle as appointments stall
Gauteng clinic committee members say they have waited three years for the Gauteng Department of Health announce new appointments – and for the department to make good on promises of pay allegedly made by former Health MEC Hope Papo.
Policy: The National Health Promotion Policy and Strategy 2015 – 2019
This 46-page document aims to guide the implementation of health promotion programmes in South Africa.
Documentary premiere: Dying in our homes
Amid a dire shortage of ambulances in the Eastern Cape patients’ lives are at risk as many calls for help go unanswered. A new Health-e News documentary, Dying In Our Homes, reveals the impact on the lives of rural families.
Work begins to expand clinic after patient files found stashed in loo
Almost a year after hundreds of patient files were found stacked in the toilet of a Soshanguve clinic, renovations to expand the township’s Block X Clinic have begun.
Sustainable Development Goals: Utopian dream or plausible plan?
For the next 15 years, the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals will guide what donors fund and what countries push – and the world may just take a page from Africa’s playbook as it pursue universal health coverage.
Mines allegedly shirk regulations, send ‘trillions’ abroad
Mining companies may be taking “trillions of dollars” out of the country while leaving communities to foot the bill for mining’s high environmental price, say activists
Soccer injury ends in death for East Rand teen
The family of a Vosloorus teen believes an injection to treat a soccer injury may have led to their son’s death, and say they may have been able to prevent this if nurses had explained to them the possible treatment side effects.
Bloated bureaucracy at HPCSA needs emergency surgery
The HPCSA is notorious for its inefficiency, but the Health Minister finally has an opportunity to reform this Byzantine monster