Negligence

 

62 psigiatriese pasiënte nog vermis na Life Esidimeni-skandaal

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Dit lyk soos ’n lys soldate wat ná ’n oorlog vermis is in aksie – maar in die werklike lewe is dit die lys van die Gautengse departement van gesondheid se lys van 62 psigiatriese pasiënte wat met die Life Esidimeni-skandaal verdwyn het.

Die pasiënte kan nêrens opgespoor word nie nadat hulle vanuit die sorgeenheid na verskeie ongeregistreerde sorgsentrums oorgeplaas is.

Altesaam 143 pasiënte is sedert die verskuiwing dood.

’n Arbitrasieverhoor word tans gehou onder die voorsitterskap van regter Dikgang Moseneke.
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Cancer patient dies after being sent home because he was ‘going to die anyway’

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A DURBAN man diagnosed with stage four cancer was reportedly refused treatment at Addington Hospital. He said he was told he was old and “going to die anyway”. He wanted justice for other elderly patients.

The Sunday Tribune Herald spoke to him earlier in the week, and on Saturday, he died. By this time, the Sunday Tribune Herald had already been printed.

This was his story:

Hoosen Noor Mahomed, 60, of Charlotte Maxeke (Beatrice) Street wanted to share his story in the hope that others like him won’t have to endure such treatment.
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Another project costing a whooping R127-million on a condom no one wanted?

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Every year, South Africa distributes tens of millions of female condoms, making the country home to one of the largest female condom programmes in the world, research published in the 2017 South African Health Review (SAHR) shows.

The tenders for these condoms are big business. The government paid billions to suppliers of male and female condoms, as well as lubricants, for three years as part of the most recent tender.

The health department should be commended for ramping up the number of female condoms it has bought and distributed over the past decade, surpassing its own target of 25-million annually in 2015/2016, the research reveals.
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Probe launched after patient falls from bed – RIP MR JC Botha

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Photo’s not for sensitive viewers. The provincial health department is investigating an incident at Livingstone Hospital’s oncology unit after the family of a terminally ill Sidwell man found him hanging half off the bed, his face covered in blood. The family claim they called for 10 minutes for a nurse before someone came to help..
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Vrou sterf wat glo in Warmbad- provinsiale hospitaal laat val is

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Die kankerpasiënt wat verlede week glo deur verpleegsters op die vloer laat val is in die Bela-Bela (Warmbad)- provinsiale hospitaal, is Maandagmiddag dood. Charmaine Caldwell (48) is omstreeks 13:10 dood, sê Leonie Brooks, haar suster. Caldwell is verlede Maandag per ambulans na die hospitaal geneem toe haar toestand verswak het. Haar familie was geskok toe..
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LifeEsidimeni: Did Qedani Mahlangu send patients to their deaths for political gain?

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Alone and under siege. That’s how former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu will face the families of 143 psychiatric patients who were sent to their deaths under her watch in 2016 and 2017. She will not have the luxury of the anonymity she enjoyed in London where she found shelter from the public glare after..
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Bejaarde dame van 90 glo mishandel by Residentia Palmoord Ouetehuis

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Die 90-jarige bejaarde se bene was vol blou kolle en merke toe haar vriendin haar uit die Residentia Palmoord Ouetehuis verwyder het. Personeel van die ouetehuis het dit glo nie behandel nie. Vriende van ’n 90-jarige vrou wat vir drie jaar in Residentia Palmoord Ouetehuis gebly het, het agterdogtig begin raak toe sy drasties agteruit..
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Mouse study shows how alcohol may cause cancer

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Alcohol damages the DNA of stem cells responsible for producing new blood, according to a mouse study which may explain the link between drinking and cancer, scientists said. Health watchdogs have long warned that alcohol consumption contributes to seven types of cancer — of the mouth, throat, larynx or voice box, oesophagus or food pipe,..
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Abortion: Government to get tougher on doctors with moral objections

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South Africa is one of a handful of African countries with liberal abortion laws. The country passed its landmark Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act in 1996. Following the Act’s introduction, the number of abortions performed in South Africa substantially increased. Today, tens of thousands of safe, legal abortions are performed each year at a..
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When he won’t say yes to a condom, maybe you should say yes to this pill

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This tablet can help to protect the country’s young women from contracting HIV. The sun begins to set as Alwande Khoza* returns home from her second clinic visit in just over a week. She lives in a student commune in a quiet Durban street. It’s a two-minute walk from the Steve Biko campus of Durban..
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