An 87-year-old man’s family has taken to social media after he was allegedly injured and bruised by staff at the Tshwane District hospital. “He is doing okay. He is in pain, and a bit confused and tired after the whole ordeal,” said Johnny Coetzee’s grandson, Gerhard Höll. “This is the second attack on my grandfather..
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WARNING: Elderly man recovering at home after alleged hospital assault (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
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Gauteng Health MEC Dismisses Claims Of Essential Medicine Shortages At Hospitals after patients reported a lack of essential drugs at government institutions
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Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa on Friday dismissed claims that all hospitals in the province didn’t have diabetes and cancer treatment available. This after the Democratic Alliance (DA) said it had noted with concern the shortage of essential drugs at government hospitals in the province. The party made claims that medication for cancer patients had..
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WATCH | Eastern Cape hospital overrun by food-snatching cats
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An extraordinary government decision to use cats at a number of Eastern Cape hospitals to do battle with rats has hit a snag. Patients in a rural hospital have complained about a battle of their own, trying to defend the food on their plates from a rag-tag army of stray cats who are not taking..
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Healthcare in SA appalling – Elderly patients forced to wait 5 days for treatment at Durban hospital
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You sit on a hard chair or lie on a thin gurney for five days, then you’re told to pack your things and go because the machine is broken and no treatment is available. That was the fate of a pensioner at Durban’s Addington Hospital who arrived for treatment on Monday and by lunchtime on..
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Pretoria Mediese Kernenergie Eenheid binne enkele maande vir tweede maal gesluit, kos SA miljoene Rand per dag
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Die sluiting van Pretoria Mediese Kernenergie Eenheid is sedert Februarie buite werking, wat beteken dat die verlies aan verkope reeds die R300 miljoen merk verby is. Die Eenheid is binne enkele maande vir ’n tweede keer gesluit, en kos die land miljoene Rand per dag. Dit is die derde keer dat die eenheid die afgelope..
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Enorme tekort aan verpleegpersoneel in SA – impak daarvan op goeie gesondheidsorg vir miljoene Suid-Afrikaners is byna ondenkbaar
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Die Solidariteit Beroepsgilde vir Gesondheidspraktisyns het vandag tydens ʼn konferensie gesê dat indien daar nie dringend ingegryp word en oplossings gevind word vir die enorme tekort aan verpleegpersoneel nie, staar ons ʼn moontlike nasionale gesondheidskrises in die oё. “Een van die grootste uitdagings in die verpleegbedryf in Suid-Afrika is die tekort aan verpleegpersoneel. Daar is..
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SHOCKING NEWS:- Drug dealers are making as much as R4,000 a day from South Africa’s growing heroin epidemic, and most might OD (overdose) and die
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South Africa is facing a growing drug epidemic, new research finds, with heroin quietly taking over both major cities and small towns in the country. This is according to a new policy brief by the Enact Project, based on research and on-the-ground interviews with drug users and drug dealers across the country. “The heroin route..
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Current medical aid models for end-of-life care will pay for costly in-hospital care but won’t pay for home-based care
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But an all women fintech startup is offering affordable and compassionate healthcare alternatives to SA’s medical schemes. Alignd is the brainchild of Dr Linda Holding, a palliative-trained doctor with 20 years of clinical risk management experience; Victoria Barr, a healthcare economist, and senior director at FTI Consulting; and Shivani Ranchod, a healthcare actuary and academic…
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Cancer is one of the silent killers in the world, starting colorectal cancer screening at 45 would avert deaths
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A Stanford-led study found that increasing the participation of older adults in colorectal cancer screening would help prevent more deaths than expanding testing to people in their 40s. Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease US cancer deaths by as much as 11,100 over five years, according to a..
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The Hawks are investigating an alleged fraudulent payout of more than R110-million by the Eastern Cape health department
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The money, desperately needed by hospitals and clinics, apparently found its way into the pockets of senior ANC officials in the province. Former infrastructure boss at the department, Mlamli Tuswa, says his attempts to raise the alarm about this irregular payment were ignored. In an affidavit, submitted to the Hawks’ anti-corruption task team in East..
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