Posts tagged with 'South Africa'

 

Hoof van Gauteng se Departement van Gesondheid bedank na 143 sterftes

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Die geskorste hoof van Gauteng se Departement van Gesondheid, dr. Barney Selebano, het bedank. Dit was hy wat die oorplasing van pasiënte goedgekeur het vanuit die Life Esidimeni fasiliteit na ongeregistreerde fasiliteite. Die oorplasing het gelei tot 143 pasiënte se dood. Tydens Selebano se aanstelling, het Jack Bloom van die DA Selebano se lof besing..
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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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Brand by Groote Schuur-hospitaal eis lewe van pasiënt

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’n Brand in een van die sale in Groote Schuur-hospitaal het die lewe van een van die pasiënte geëis. Alaric Jacobs, woordvoerder van die hospitaal, het Maandagoggend bevestig daar was Sondagaand omstreeks 22:00 ’n brand in saal G17 by dié hospitaal. Hy sê die saal is ontruim, maar ongelukkig is een van die manspasiënte (63)..
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Is dental healthcare as affordable and accessible as it should be?

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Oral health is essential to optimal overall health and minimising the probability of developing serious oral health conditions or infections in future. Yet, besides the fear factor, why are so many people reluctant to visit the dentist? “The underlying factors here include resources, socio-economic circumstances, accessibility and education.” “One of the biggest culprits for keeping..
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Familie word van bakpoort na stuurpoort gestuur by Steve Biko Hospitaal na seun se ongeluk

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Die Steve Biko Akademiese Hospitaal is weereens onder die vergrootglas geplaas nadat nog klagtes na vore gekom het. ’n Familie van die Moot sê die hospitaal was nalatig nadat ’n geliefde verlede Woensdag in die hospitaal opgeneem is. Jayden Pieterse (27) is in die hospitaal opgeneem nadat hy in ’n verskeersongeluk betrokke was. Die ongeluk..
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Natal gesondheid in gemors

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Die Natalse Gesondheidsdepartement sit reeds twee jaar sonder ‘n finansiële hoof. Die departement sê dat hulle hul bes doen om die pos te vul. Die vraag is nou wie intussen omsien na die finansiële kontrole van die departement? Ten spyte van verskeie pogings en advertering van die pos is daar nog niemand aangestel nie. Waarnemers..
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Bejaarde man wat 15 dae lank op ’n noodoperasie gewag het, sterf

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Die Vrystaatse gesondheidsdepartement ontken enige aandadigheid aan die dood van ’n pasiënt wat 15 dae lank op ’n noodoperasie gewag het. Frederick Thiart (77) van Edenburg is 14 Desember dood, twee dae nadat sy been geamputeer is. Thiart, ’n diabeet, het met erge pyn en gangreen in sy een been in die Pelonomi-hospitaal in Bloemfontein..
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Health official organised hitmen to kill Soweto hospital CEO

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An official of the Gauteng department of health has been convicted of conspiring to commit murder, Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa said. Briefing the media in Midrand, Ramokgopa said Zandi Qwabe, a clerk at the Bheki Mlangeni Regional Hospital in Soweto, had organised hitmen to have the CEO and the labour relations manager of the hospital..
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