I am posting this out of pure frustration and desperation! We all know that It is an open secret that SA government health services, especially hospitals, are, to say the least in a poor state!! We know that we are pretty much doomed without expensive medical aid, but this just takes the cake. Who to..
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Enough of Staats Hospitals / Clinics’ pathetic service
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WARNING: Elderly man recovering at home after alleged hospital assault (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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