KZN districts overtakes E Cape as most deprived
Six of the country'€™s 10 most deprived districts are in KwaZulu-Natal, with Umzinyathi and Umkhanyakude being the poorest in the country.
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Lack of hospital transformation plan ‘€˜of concern’€™, say Treasury
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.
HIV/AIDS: Huge numbers
Last year alone, 376 000 people with HIV started antiretroviral medication'€“ over 100 000 more than the previous year.
Pravin’s budget speech
Read the 2012 budget speech here and get more details on how much money is being put aside for health.
Gauteng health admits to crisis
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.
Bara warning bells sounded long ago
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.
NDOH promises supplies in Gauteng
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.
TAC ready to litigate against health department
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.
Global Fund crisis: SA projects face closure
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.
Huge lab and drug challenges in Gauteng
JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng'€™s public health service has run out of essential lifesaving drugs and its laboratory services are about to collapse.
Foster care for kids after brutal attacks
Thandi* put her two children into foster care this week, finally acknowledging that she could not manage alone as a young, unemployed, single mother.
Police finally arrest child rape suspect
Police arrested the man suspected of raping and slitting the throat of a seven-year-old girl yesterday, following a report in The Star.
Bara crisis as newborns die
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.
Child raped and left for dead, but police do nothing
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.
New President for HIV Clinicians Society
The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has appointed a new President, Dr Francesca Conradie.