Treasury officials have criticised the health department'€™s lack of detail about how it aims to transform public hospitals in preparation for the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.
Six of the country'€™s 10 most deprived districts are in KwaZulu-Natal, with Umzinyathi and Umkhanyakude being the poorest in the country.
The jobs of 92 hospital CEOs are going to be advertised this weekend as part of government'€™s plan to improve hospital management.
Read the 2012 budget speech here and get more details on how much money is being put aside for health.
The Gauteng Health Department has acknowledged that it has serious staff shortfalls. Addressing the issue of Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the provincial Health MEC admitted that there are insufficient trained theatre nurses working in the maternity ward of the facility.
By tomorrow, public health facilities in Gauteng will have medicines and there must be a plan to pay out all outstanding debts to suppliers of critical services and commodities that enable proper health care delivery. That'€™s according to national Health Department Director-General, Precious Matsoso.
Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) doctors had issued a warning in December last year already that the suboptimal staffing levels at the hospital were dangerous and endangering the lives of mothers and children.
Thandi* put her two children into foster care this week, finally acknowledging that she could not manage alone as a young, unemployed, single mother.
JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng'€™s public health service has run out of essential lifesaving drugs and its laboratory services are about to collapse.
South African recipients of money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) have pleaded with the health minister to intervene as they continue to wait for overdue funds.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says it'€™s ready to litigate against the Gauteng Health Department should it not clear its outstanding debt to suppliers by the end of this week. The TAC adds that the closure of health laboratories in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has severely impacted on people who are HIV-positive and those with TB.
Police arrested the man suspected of raping and slitting the throat of a seven-year-old girl yesterday, following a report in The Star.
The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has appointed a new President, Dr Francesca Conradie.
Zandile*, a slender seven-year-old, was raped and almost killed in her family'€™s shack in Katlehong on the night of 20 November '€“ allegedly by her mother'€™s ex-boyfriend. After raping her, the man slit her throat in front of her five-year-old brother and left her bleeding and struggling to breathe.
There has been an increase in newborn baby deaths and newborns with brain damage at Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) Hospital'€™s labour ward since November, including two avoidable stillbirths, as a staffing crisis linked to non-payment of nursing agencies hit the academic hospital.
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