OurHealth: ‘Exercise keeps me young’
Story by Thamsanqa Majola, OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Bethlehem in the Free State.
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Orthopaedic capacity boost for Free State hospitals
The Free State Health Department hopes boosting orthopaedic capacity at district hospitals will help eradicate long waiting times for patients. At the moment, the Pelonomi Regional Hospital in Bloemfontein, is under severe strain due to the number of referrals. Department…
Organised crime behind water shortage at Manapo hospital – FS health MEC
The chronic water shortages at Manapo Hospital in Phuthaditjhaba have been linked to organised crime, according to Free State health MEC Viceroy Mahlatsi.
OPINION: The Victims of ‘Success’
Somewhere around 1 November 2008 the death penalty was reintroduced in the Free State. Quietly, with the stroke of a pen, an official in the Department of Health in Bloemfontein signed a memorandum introducing a moratorium declaring that no new patients should be put on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment. This was to be for the next five months ' until the new financial year, April 1 2009 -- when the funds would return.
OPINION: Crisis as Free State ARV programme collapses
The AIDS epidemic in our country, over more than 10 years, has had sadly many more downs than ups.
Ongoing Pelonomi strike: A ticking timebomb for patients
The ongoing health workers’ strike at the Pelonomi Tertiary Hosptial in Bloemfontein has placed the welfare of thousands of patients in jeopardy. Workers downed tools on Tuesday due to ‘unsafe working conditions’ and ‘vacancies’ and vowed not to return until…
One woman’s brave fight against breast cancer
A Free State woman who is battling against breast cancer found that by changing her outlook she has been able to change her experience.
Nyaope “zombies” plague small Free State town
Mild mannered youth turned knife-wielding “zombies” – it might seem like a scene out of a horror film but it is real for some residents living outside the small Free State town of Bethlehem as the picturesque dorpie is the latest to fall under the spell of South Africa’s cheap street drug nyaope.
Ntombela praises COVID-19 vaxxers as FS marks milestone
The Free State has ticked off another box on their to-do list after it was revealed that the province has administered one million COVID-19 vaccine doses. With an overall population of two million, the vaccination campaign has been deemed a…
No water and power cuts at Manapo hospital in the Free State risks patients’ lives
Manapo hospital in the Free State is facing long-standing water shortages and frequent power cuts. Patients must bring their own water, and operations have been disrupted.
No teaching at Botshabelo school for nine months due to water shortages
Learners would at Kgorathuto school for registers to be taken, and were then sent home.
No more 24-hour health services for some Mangaung residents
Free State Health MEC Viceroy Mahlatsi says his department is struggling to retain staff.
No money for new ARV patients in FS – health department
The Free State health department has confirmed that it has been 'delaying' placing about 400 patients on antiretrovirals (ARVs) since the beginning of November, but denies that this was due to financial mismanagement in the province.
No injuries reported after fire at National Hospital in Bloemfontein
The fire at National Hospital was quickly extinguished, but it left severe damage to the facility.
No end in sight for construction at FS ‘ideal hospital’ in Kroonstad
Poor maintenance and water shortages are causing further delays in finishing the construction of the theatre unit at the Boitumelo Hospital in the Free State according to Montseng Tsiu, chairperson of the provincial legislature committee on education, health and social…