Ex-employees of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) allege that former NHLS CEO Dr Saggie Pillay’s tenure at the body was marred by corruption – and that whistleblowers were dealt with swiftly.
Tshwane District Health Services are slated to receive about R114 million for infrastructure development, including seven new clinics, according to District Health Manager Mothomone Pitsi.
Private healthcare is wasteful and over-dependent on hospitals, which makes it too expensive for a large group of working people to join medical schemes.
The North West’s move to put more than 300 community health workers on bicycles has met resistance from workers and union representatives as they alleged they were never consulted about the bikes – and that they remain underpaid.
Mothers allege some Gauteng hospitals are withholding newborn babies from immigrant mums until they can pay for delivering at public hospitals. Others say health care workers have threatened not to treat children unless bills are paid in full.
from foreign mums until bills for delivering at public hospitals are paid.
The global goal of getting 15 million people on life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has been met nine months early, the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) announced today.
Employees at the National Health Laboratory Services’ (NHLS) Sandringham office embarked on a lunchtime picket earlier today as they continue to push for a wage increase.
Security guards escorted several audience members out of a civil society-organised commission into the Free State health system as fears mounted that tensions in the room could lead to violence.
The greater availability of food, rather than our sedentary lifestyles, are responsible for our expanding waistlines, says a new report.
An anaesthetist is not only responsible for putting you to sleep before surgery - they also have to keep you alive during and 24-hours after an operation.
Mpumalanga’s Standerton Hospital opened a new wellness clinic to improve services and shorten wait times this week.
Climate change could wipe out all the health gains made in the last 50 years and urgent steps need to be taken to prevent further increases in global temperature.
This Department of Health handbook is aimed at guiding the work of District Clinical Specialist Teams introduced as part of South Africa's National Health Insurance.
Nursing staff and patients at the Bankhara Community Clinic outside Kuruman, Northern Cape say their clinic continues to struggle with medicine and space shortages almost two years after OurHealth first reported on the clinic’s poor state.
Tebogo Malema was a pregnant in her matric year and that’s why she says she backs government’s proposal to give condoms to kids.
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