The new variant of the coronavirus has upended government plans to start vaccinating health care workers. While the health ministry has switched from the AstraZeneca to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, supply of doses is a challenge.
South African healthcare workers to participate in a stay-away strike called by SAFTU to voice their grievances despite Covid-19 concerns.
The family of a four-year-old boy who died after he was hit by a car last month believes he may have survived if it wasn’t for load shedding. Their nightmare started when a car hit Nhlakanipho Zondo while he was…
While the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) prepares to probe the ongoing Limpopo Department of Health fiasco, healthcare workers have hung out even more dirty washing, describing their inhumane working conditions. They are faced with several hurdles daily including overcrowding, staff…
The shortage of healthcare professionals in South Africa has led to nurses working in the public health sector faced with almost double the workloads. This is according to the President of the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union, Lerato Maduma-Gova. “The…
The Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union (HAITU) is demanding the removal of Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko and her management team, accusing them of exploiting temporary workers stationed at provincial health facilities. Bafana Tshabalala, HAITU Gauteng Chairperson says…
Parties and gatherings have always been regarded as one of the main sources for COVID-19 infections. But with hospital admissions picking up at a rapid rate in Limpopo, it is believed that health facilities are doing considerable damage too.
Underpaid and overworked community health care workers face harsh working conditions with uncertain futures in the midst of pandemic.
“I regret being a nurse in Limpopo. We are under-staffed and working under constant pressure. We are working with ‘skeleton’ teams and we have to do double the work, no matter how tired and fatigued we are,” says Shirly Sithole*.…
There is much anticipation as South Africa gears up for the arrival of the first batch of the Covid-19 vaccine while health workers worry about the number of doses.
Patient strangles nurse until she lost consciousness at Pholosong Hospital in Tsakane. Nelisiwe Msomi reports.
`IAs South Africans try to cope with the ongoing load shedding situation, health facilities across the country are under severe pressure to maintain their day-to-day activities. Sadly, this sometimes means losing a patient when oxygen or life-saving equipment isn’t readily…
Nursing unions are concerned by staff shortages, crumbling healthcare infrastructure and more, but the Limpopo Department of Health maintains that there’s no crisis in the province.
A number of nurses and nursing trade unions have voiced their disappointment about their apparent exclusion from the country’s relief measures — such as income tax breaks.
A nurse at Khayelitsha District Hospital became the first person in South Africa vaccinated against the coronavirus. Yet, as scientists and government officials race to inoculate other frontline workers, some health workers are suspicious of the vaccine.
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