Surgeries had to be delayed at Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital after the only operational lift – to the theatre complex – was declared unsafe by the department of labour. Staff also struggled to get food and medicine to patients. The hospital’s theatres are on the first floor, making an operational lift essential. Eastern Cape department..
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The department of health is now really starting to falling apart:- Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital’s last lift to theater broken
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Durban man, Mr. Balgobind, is in a coma and his wife were told to leave the private hospital over bill query
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Durban – A MANAGER at a private hospital allegedly demanded that a gravely ill patient, who has been comatose since December, be expelled from the facility because his family questioned the medical bill they were ordered to pay. Durban businessman Prem Balgobind had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery at Arwyp Medical Centre, a private hospital..
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Dinge begin nou regtig inmekaar val in ons staatshospitale, hulle voel ‘n veer vir Blanke pasiënte:- ‘My ma sou hiér doodgegaan het’
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Die suster het glo vir haar gesê sy kan wag tot 21:30 wanneer hulle die medikasie uitdeel. Witbank Hospitaal is deesdae baie in die nuus – met goeie rede. Na twee klagtes in verlede week se WITBANK NUUS het nog ’n voorval aan die lig gekom van ’n vrou wat gaan hulp soek het by..
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The scourge of crime in Cape Town knows no bounds, Kensington Day Hospital closed indefinitely after robbery
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Kensington Day Hospital in Cape Town, has been closed indefinitely, after computers and other equipment were stolen this past weekend. As reported by EWN, the day hospital was vandalized and police believe that the burglars also made it off with medication too. Why is Kensington Day Hospital closed? According to police spokesperson, Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana,..
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Failing health system in spotlight ahead of vote – psychiatric patients tied to bed in emergency ward of SA’s biggest hospital – is this the guaranteed basic treatment that ANC-regime promised South Africans when it came to power in 1994?
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Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the country’s dire healthcare crisis is starkly evident. Some of the group are restrained using just medical bandages, while one screaming female patient is tied to a bed that is itself..
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Patient’s nightmare after operation at EL hospital – man lay in faeces, infested with flies
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The family of a man who allegedly lay in bed in his own faeces, with an open wound infested with flies, has accused Frere Hospital of negligence and poor service. Reginald Durandt, 52, from Amalinda, was admitted to the hospital on April 9 for surgery on a twisted bowel. His brother, Henry Durandt, said Reginald’s..
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Skokkende statistieke oor verpleegsters se swak werkomstandighede in Suid-Afrika
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Daar is tans vele uitdagings en probleme wat die verpleegprofessie in die gesig staar. Verpleegkundiges in Suid-Afrika gaan gebuk onder onveilige werkomstandighede, uitbranding en gebrekkige hulpbronne in die werkplek. Suid-Afrika het altesaam 3 816 openbare gesondheidsorginstellings. Die Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) het vir die tydperk 2016-2017 inspeksies by 969 (25%) gesondheidsorginstansies regoor SA..
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At the end of white-minority rule SA’s Health System under management of ANC-regime is failing and in spotlight ahead of election
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Voting this year will mark 25 years since the end of apartheid rule, but hopes have been dashed that the new era would produce a modern, accessible public health service. Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the..
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Springs Clinic allegedly out of chronic medication for the past two weeks – Patients have been turned away
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Patients have been turned away from the Springs Clinic in the East-Rand, for the past two weeks as the facility allegedly does not have certain types of chronic medication. Patients are unhappy about the way they have been treated by the staff at the Springs Clinic. Bester went on to allege that last Monday, the..
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Why is it so important to fix primary healthcare so crucial to making South Africa healthier
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By some measures – healthy life expectancy, obesity, and depression, among others – South Africa is the unhealthiest country on earth. That’s a sobering fact to consider. How has the country got here? To what extent can its unenviable position be regarded as a failure of primary healthcare? Primary healthcare can refer to the care..
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