From the Eastern Cape to Limpopo, medicine shortages continue to be reported throughout South Africa. In a year in which it seems stock outs have become the new mystery disease, the causes shortages remain difficult to diagnose.
In rural areas, the distance between health facilities can span hundreds of kilometres often covered via poor roads. In places like these, the difference between a health care worker having cell phone reception or seeing the familiar “No service” on a cell phone screen can be a matter of life or death.
Women in Orange Farm south of Johannesburg say they were recently told to buy their own prenatal vitamins after the local clinic ran short of pills.
The shortage of the BCG vaccine to protect newborns against TB is “not as grave as has been portrayed in some media quarters”, according to the National Advisory Group on Immunisation (NAGI).
A drop-in centre in Ha-Mashau, Limpopo provides daily meals to 150 orphaned or vulnerable children. Now, the centre may close almost a decade after it first opened its doors.
A civil society inquiry has accused the Free State of failing to act on alleged shortages of medicine, health professionals and ambulances. The Free State says the inquiry is politically motivated.
More than half of all young South Africans live in poverty, according to a new report released today. The report is a stark reminder that not even the “born free” generation is free of poverty’s shackles.
Airlifted food shipments have brought some relief to barricaded Bethesda District Hospital, which has been largely cut off from patients and supply deliveries for four days forcing some patients to walk up to 18 km for medical attention.
Dyfunction. Maladministration. Incoherence – a damning ministerial task team report on the Health Professions Council of SA signals the end of an era where the top officials could do as they pleased. But will change come fast enough for foreign doctors who are twisting in the wind?
Months after Health-e news reported how children and staff at a Jouberton crèche lived in fear of criminal activity in the area, criminals have struck again.
Staff and patients at Bethesda District Hospital have been left stranded as local communities protest water shortages. Community members say patients have been unable to access treatment and emergency cases have been diverted since protests started Wednesday.
Heads are likely to roll at the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) after a ministerial task team found its three top officials were “unfit” to hold their positions.
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.
From picking the dress to negotiating curfew, a lot goes into the perfect matric dance but some teens may be taking dangerous risks in an effort to look "their best" for the big night.
Lekwa Local Municipality graveyards are allegedly filling up and the area’s high HIV prevalence rate are is to blame, according to Lekwa Executive Mayor Linda Dhlamini.
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