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Surgery backlogs: TAC warns public healthcare near collapse

Health Systems, News

There are currently 32,000 patients on surgery waiting lists in Gauteng’s public hospitals. And the provincial health department says these patients could wait up to five years for certain operations. Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) Gauteng chairperson, Monwabisi Mbasa,…

LililtaG
February 10, 2023

Lack of beds at Hayani leaves mental patients stranded

Lack of beds at Hayani leaves mental patients in the lurch

Mental Health, News

The situation at the Hayani Psychiatric Hospital in Vhembe outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo is a nightmare. The facility has a shortage of beds as discharged patients with nowhere to go remain in the hospital. It is also forced to turn…

NdivhuwoMukwevho
July 6, 2022

Relief as needle is removed from a woman’s hand

News

A mother who lived with a needle in her hand for three months is relieved after a surgery that was postponed six times finally gets underway.

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
May 27, 2019

Operation on ice for the fifth time

News

LIMPOPO - Mabula Maboyi (35) has lost hope that a needle that broke off inside her right hand will ever be removed, after her scheduled operation was postponed for the fifth time at Tshilidzini Hospital.

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
April 25, 2019

Surgery backlogs: TAC warns public healthcare near collapse

Lack of beds at Hayani leaves mental patients in the lurch

Relief as needle is removed from a woman’s hand

Operation on ice for the fifth time

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