News child mortality data shows East and southern Africa are making the fastest progress on reducing child deaths - and this bodes well as the world ushers in new development goals, write UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and southern Africa Leila Gharagozloo-Pakkala and Save the Children East Africa Director David Wright.
After elderly and frail visitors at an East Rand drop in centre could not get to health services, the Gauteng Department of Health has vowed to bring the health services to them.
The North West province has warned 35 medical students headed to Cuba that bad behaviour abroad will not be looked on kindly.
‘Soon, soon’ – the complexity of radically transforming the health system underlies the snail’s pace of the National Health Insurance (NHI) White Paper’s development, but a lot is happening to improve the quality of public health in preparation for one universal health system. Kerry Cullinan reports for Health-e News.
The “new” Natalspruit Hospital in Vosloorus has been renamed for ANC activist Thelle Mogoerane.
Douglas patients in the Northern Cape have welcomed two new nurses for the town’s Breipaal Clinic after a previous staff shortage led to long queues and patients being turned away.
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Mpumalanga has launched Operation Vuka Sisebente to improve coordination of service delivery between departments by launching the “war room” concept that has become the centre of KwaZulu-Natal’s HIV response.
New research has shown that fiery Health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi may have been just what the doctor ordered for South Africans’ health.
The Nyembezi family alleges that the Natalspruit Hospital failed to attend to their dying daughter after what seemed like a common cold turned deadly.
About 300 activists recently gathered outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg to protest corruption they say is partially behind poor service delivery.
The Mpumalanga Department of Health has unveiled a state-of-the-art maternity ward as part of its new community health centre near Standerton.
An animal rights activist has been helping Soweto patients with transport to hospital as paramedics fear entering the area.
Health specialists routinely charge more for treatments that medical schemes are compelled by law to provide to members – called prescribed minimum benefits (PMB).
One in four people go hungry in South Africa every day, and the public needs to ensure that their right to access to food enshrined in the Constitution is realised.
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