South African companies have raised R12 million in cash and goods to assist in West Africa’s Ebola response but experts warn that more resources are needed as crucial diagnostics cost R10,000 per day.
The Department of Basic Education will spend about R18 million to deworm children in the nation’s schools starting next January.
Better care and treatment of HIV patients may be putting the country on the road to a decline in infections – and the secret lies in patients’ blood, according to new data.
Selected provincial health budget vote speeches from the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng the Western Cape provinces.
Foreign health care workers could help fill the country’s vacant posts but a report released today shows that red tape often gets in the way.
As the ranks of managers bloat, less money may be going to service delivery in some health districts as about half of districts report they do not have the managers, money or control to do their jobs properly.
South Africa should aim to open a private medical school to address health care needs, said Western Cape MEC for Health Theuns Botha.
Creativity and an understanding of where your patients come from are key to being a successful rural doctor, says Dr Jenny Nash, who this week was named Rural Doctor of the Year.
Published by the South African Department of Health, this 53-page document outlines eight broad strategic goals for the department within the next four years including rolling out the National Health Insurance (NHI), re-engineering primary health care and improving financial management.
Health organisations have launched a new push to address what some have called a “mental health pandemic” fuelled by drug abuse in the country.
A five-week long student strike at The University of Limpopo’s Medunsa campus in Ga-Rankuwa recently left patients in the community without care.
In this 2013 presentation, the Department of Health outlines legislative, governance and institutional reforms accompanying the National Health Insurance (NHI) as well as timeframes.
AIDS lobby the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) recently marched to one Mpumalanga clinic to demand improved service delivery and a stop to medicine stock outs.
Donald Fraser Hospital recently went a without running water for a week after a pipe burst.
Patients have accused Soweto’s newly opened Zola-Jabulani Hospital of turning patients away who do not meet “emergency” criteria.
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