Confusion as clinic closed
OurHealth: Lusikisiki - Several attempts to prevent the closure of Village Clinic, which treats a large number of people living with HIV, have failed and patients were met with locked doors on Tuesday morning.
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Winterveldt HIV projects face closure
OurHealth: Winterveldt '€“ A number of non-governmental organisations who were in the past supported by the United States President'€™s Emergency Plan for AIDS (Pepfar) are closing at the end of March because they have failed to secure alternative funding.
TAC and chiefs join forces to save Madwaleni
OurHealth: Madwaleni '€“ Local chiefs joined forces with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in a drive to remedy the desperate situation at Madwaleni hospital where a lone doctor is trying to hold the fort.
Academy to improve the health service
From now on, new hospital CEOs and other high-level managers responsible for health care delivery in South Africa will undergo specialised training in health care management.
HPCSA axes thousands from its register
PRESS RELEASE: Almost 10 000 healthcare practitioners were suspended from the Health Professions Council of South Africa'€™s (HPCSA) register this past weekend for failure to pay their annual fees.
Strike paralyses E Cape health services
A large number of clinics and hospitals in the Eastern Cape are experiencing critical medicine shortages and stock outs while surgery and other procedures have virtually grind to a halt due to a wildcat strike by staff at the Mthatha Health Complex (MHC).
Bara Hospital CEO leaving
The CEO of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johanna More, has unexpectedly given notice that she will leave her position next month. Her position was one of 90 hospitals CEO positions nationally that the Health Minister was looking to fill with suitably qualified people.
Free State learners receive health education, screening
OurHealth. - A group of grade eight learners from the Paul Roux Intermediate School in the town of Paul Roux in the Free State were visited by a nurse as part of the Integrated School Health Programme of the National Health Insurance (NHI).
Stinky toilets for primary school
OurHealth - Itlotliseng Primary School learners in Tseki village, Phuthaditjhaba (Qwa-Qwa) in the Free State have to every day deal with dirty toilets and unreliable access to water.
Getting the community talking about NHI
OurHealth. '€“ A community in Tshwane is taking charge of their health situation and creating awareness of National Health Insurance (NHI) efforts that are taking place in their area.
TAC tackle Cancer Alliance on patents
OPINION: Catherine Tomlinson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has published an article on Quackdown that gives a detailed response to criticisms of the TAC and MSF by the Cancer Alliance.
Lancet: Can WHO survive?
The title of last week's Global Health Lab, held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was meant to incite interest, not signal aggression. But some interpreted the symposium as an attack before it had even taken place. I was texted, tweeted, and emailed to encourage diplomacy. None of these rearguard protective manoeuvres turned out to be necessary. By Richard Horton.
Gauteng health dept says it’€™s recovering
Despite reports of broken equipment such as cat scans at Leratong Hospital and the cancellation of operations because of a shortage of sterilisation products at Helen Joseph Hospital, the Gauteng health department says health services are improving.
Gordhan shares details on medium term health funding
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has delivered his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement. Gordhan acknowledged that there has been mismanagement of supplies to schools and hospitals in some provinces.
Patients suffer as EC hospital workers’ strike
A wildcat strike has left patients at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and surrounding clinics and hospitals without life-saving medicines and treatment for the last two weeks. Reports indicate that the administrative staff went on strike because they are unhappy about their exclusion from a performance bonus.