THE WARRENTON Hospital has had no water for the past two weeks, where the toilets cannot be flushed and patients have been unable to clean themselves properly. Patients who were admitted over the weekend indicated that when it was “absolutely necessary” to flush the toilet, a wheelbarrow was used to wheel in a refuse bin..
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Another Hospital without water, more ‘Load shedding on water’
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BREAKING NEWS:- Children are dying in pain because they cannot get the medicines they need
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I had a patient last year, a four-year-old boy, with a type of cancer, called neuroblastoma. After initial treatment, cancer came back, growing in the confined space between his spine and stomach, causing unbearable pain. His mother was a police officer; a strong, stoical woman who had seen a lot, but she was struggling. After..
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Shocking News:- New Study Shows Half of Cancer Patients are Killed by Chemotherapy, Not Cancer
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No matter how much doctors push the treatment, chemotherapy might not be the best option in the fight against cancer, as a new study shows up to 50 percent of patients are killed by the drugs — not the disease, itself. Researchers from Public Health England and Cancer Research UK performed a groundbreaking study examining..
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‘Terminally ill children left to die in pain in SA government hospitals’ – ANC-regime has not yet implemented its policy on palliative care, affecting paediatric patients with terminal illnesses.
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This is the assertion of paediatrician Dr Michelle Meiring, who said while the policy had been approved, there has been no budget to implement it. “These kids are suffering in pain today. We need to do something more urgently,” she said. Meiring is a senior lecturer in palliative medicine at the University of Cape Town,..
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Robert Mangiloso Subukwe-hospitaal:- “Eers wanneer blindederm bars is dit noodgeval” – KH dokter
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Sandra Kok, ’n ouma van ’n 15-jarige seun wat ’n nood blindedermoperasie moes ondergaan, vertel van hulle ervaring by Robert Mangiloso Subukwe-hospitaal. Kok se kleinseun is Donderdagaand 17 Januarie in dié hospitaal opgeneem. “Ons het vermoed dit is sy blindederm,” sê Kok. “Ons het gesit en wag van 00:00 tot ongeveer 04:00 toe die dokter..
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Ill baby denied healthcare at state hospitals, as a result of very arrogant medical employees the infant died – death could have been prevented if medical team chose to do their job properly
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A Pietermaritzburg woman’s impassioned plea for nurses at two city hospitals to help her very ill infant fell on deaf ears and hours later the five-month-old baby died. After his mother was turned away from two state hospitals — Grey’s and Northdale — baby Brody Lee Bezuidenhout could not hold on any longer and died…
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Durban’s meningitis warning after death of 7-year-old boy
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AT least 40 pupils as well as doctors, nurses and teachers in Amanzimtoti have been placed on antibiotics to prevent them from contracting a “very infectious” strain of meningitis following the death of a 7-year-old boy last week. Paediatrician Thesiga Reddy, one of the doctors who treated the boy at Kingsway Hospital, said he was..
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Nurses allegedly ‘ignored’ pleas for help as mom cradled dead infant after suffering a miscarriage, while nurses pay no attention to her and ate their cereal at Groote Schuur Hospital
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The Western Government Health Department will be investigating a young mother’s claims that she nearly bled to death after suffering a miscarriage, while nurses ignored her and ate their cereal at Groote Schuur Hospital. The woman says she lay for seven hours in a heap of blood clots “the size of her fists”, while the..
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There are so many complex reasons for South Africa’s organ donor shortage
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At any given time, there are around 4,300 people waiting for organ donations in South Africa. These patients usually need new livers, kidneys, lungs or hearts. But organ donors are in very short supply.
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Less than 2000 state ambulances nationally may be on the road
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The national health department says it is against outsourcing emergency services. But with a grave shortage of ambulances, it may have no choice.
Just 1971 state ambulance vehicles are on the road nationally, a Bhekisisa survey reveals.
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