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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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Union stops its nurses from escorting patients

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The provincial branch of the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) is stopping its members from escorting patients from one health care facility to another. The union said its members had been exploited and overworked for too long, with the Health Department “dragging its feet” on employing paramedics qualified to handle referrals and transfers. Mandla..
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Discovery Health recovers R568m through fraud-control activities in 2017

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According to Discovery Health CEO, Dr Jonathan Broomberg, efforts to curb fraud in the healthcare system resulted in R568m recovered on behalf of client schemes in 2017, compared to R405m in 2016. Further, fraud-control activities in which health professionals and others contemplating fraud desist from committing fraud in reaction to visible policing and action by..
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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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Private healthcare in SA – continued decline and a solution

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We entered 2017 reeling from a series of double-digit medical insurance premium hikes. It was becoming clear that schemes are in trouble; undercut by unregulated, selective insurance products and forced into tighter and tighter modes of managing care delivered. We were facing an affordability crisis then – that, without serious systematic change, schemes will be..
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Newborn babies are the worst affected by Listeriosis outbreak

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The South African government on Monday announced a range of interventions in the health sector in a bid to protect the population, particularly newborn babies, from a listeriosis epidemic which has killed 61 so far. “When we view statistics of affected people, we note that of all the vulnerable groups, neonates [newborn babies within first..
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2 bogus doctors arrested operating an illegal surgery, Polokwane

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In a concerted effort to demolish all the crime hot spots throughout this Province, the Tactical Joint Operation composed of the Provincial Detectives and Tracking Team was conducted in the City of Polokwane focusing on the illegal operations conducted by the bogus Medical Doctors and Traditional Healers. This operation was conducted on 4 January 2018,..
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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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