The Gauteng Department of Health (GDOH), in partnership with medical aid schemes and their administrators, has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a public-private partnership. Through the MoU, medical aid schemes will support the GDOH in various activities associated with the provincial Health, Wellness and Happiness (HWH) campaign. This initiative is aimed at..
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Gauteng Health signs Memorandum of Understanding with medical aid schemes
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Another Hospital without water, more ‘Load shedding on water’
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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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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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Lyk verdwyn, koelkamers stukkend in die Mthatha-patologie-laboratorium in die Oos-Kaap – Hoe de joos, verdwyn ’n lyk in die lykshuis?
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’n Vermiste lyk, stukkende koelkamers waarin lyke gehou word en personeel wat glo op grond van hul politieke affiliasie aangestel word – dis hoe dinge glo in die Mthatha-patologie-laboratorium in die Oos-Kaap lyk. Jane Cowley, DA-woordvoerder oor gesondheid in die Oos-Kaap, sê die lyk van ’n jong man het in Januarie spoorloos uit die lykshuis..
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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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Billions are lost due to Doctors, hospitals and medical aid members collude to commit fraud
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The Special Investigating Unit says it is actively targeting fraudsters in the private healthcare sector. Fraud, waste and abuse is costing the private healthcare system more than R22-billion, and if you submit false claims, you could face more than just being terminated from your scheme, the Council for Medical Schemes warned at its summit on..
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Our borders are being flooded so the question is, are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?
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Directives recently issued by the national and Gauteng health departments requiring foreign nationals to pay in full for healthcare at public facilities weren’t only a threat to public health, they may have been downright illegal. Walk into a public hospital, and you may be asked to fill out a form stating just how much you..
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More ‘money wasted’ and there are lots of concerns over incomplete Free State drug treatment centre
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The Portfolio Committee on Social Development wants to have a meeting with the National Treasury and the Department of Public Works as to why a drug treatment centre in the Free State has not been completed. In a statement the committee said the facility has been under construction for three years without any progress. This..
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ANC owerheid nalatig om betyds voorraad aan te vul van lewensnoodsaaklike entstof, nou sit SA met landswye tekort – kinders se gesondheidstoestand word nou bedreig
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Suid-Afrika se gesondheidsektor het tans ’n landswye tekort aan lewensnoodsaaklike entstof wat voorkomend is vir Witseerkeel asook ’n entstof ter voorkoming van klem in die kaak. Die tekort het ouers nie net gefrustreerd gelaat nie, maar veroorsaak woede en angs omdat hul geliefdes se algehele toestand bedreig word. Die tekort aan die entstof is ’n..
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Here’s a view on what the 2019 budget means for healthcare consumers
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National Health Insurance (NHI) is critical to creating a quality functioning healthcare system for all South Africans and it is good to see that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Budget Speech covered areas such as increased funding for certain diseases and improved service delivery in the public sector. Healthcare in South Africa can only work if..
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