Cancer may be under-diagnosed in prisoners
Prisoner Lucas Mngadi* died within four months of being diagnosed with colon cancer after complaining for months about pain.
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Mental illness alarming in prisons
Prison warders are unable to distinguish between a naturally violent inmate and a mentally ill inmate as they receive no training in identifying mental illness.
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A shift in Johannesburg’s “Sun City” prison may stack just two warders against up to 1,400 inmates, according to a new report that argues staff shortages are fuelling prison violence.
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DR-TB a ‘public health emergency’ – activists
Civil society groups have called for government to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency, as the DR-TB response remains underfunded.
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