South Africa’s largest medical schemes – both open and restricted – are in good shape and have sufficient reserves to pay members’ claims, according to Alexander Forbes Health’s latest edition of Diagnosis, an annual publication that analyses key trends in the medical schemes industry from 2000 to 2017. The insights were drawn from the Alexander..
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South Africa’s medical schemes in good health, both open and restricted, according to Alexander Forbes
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Most people ask Dr Google but be cautious here are the pros and cons of online diagnosis
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Pop symptoms of a headache into a search engine and it will come back with a myriad of diagnoses, varying from a sinus headache to a tumour. Dr Google has become the source of choice for self-diagnosis, a second opinion or to find out more about a diagnosed condition. While many healthcare practitioners caution very..
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Mother disappears and left her disabled kids to starve and live in their own filth
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The mother of this disabled 16-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother is being sought by authorities after the children were found abandoned in a hokkie. The kids were sitting in their own excrement and did not have any food when members of the local neighbourhood watch found them in their Wendy house in Leiden, Delft,..
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The Rahima Moosa hospital in talks with Eskom about possible exemption from load shedding
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In the midst of rolling blackouts throughout South Africa Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Coronationville, Johannesburg, says it is in talks with City Power and power utility Eskom to have its own load shedding schedule and be exempted from that of its surrounding area. This was told to DA leader Mmusi Maimane by..
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BREAKING NEWS:- Tramadol: The Drug Claiming More Lives Than Any Painkiller
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Painkiller Tramadol has killed more people than heroin and cocaine. Imagine a prescription medication that relieves pain just as well as narcotics like Oxycontin, but isn’t addictive. Too good to be true? Turns out, yes. For years, that was the case with Tramadol, a synthetic opioid drug that was released in 1995 under the brand..
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How can this be possible:- Baby dies after doctor allegedly administers wrong blood on her
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A certain doctor at a state hospital has been called out by a woman who alleged he administered the wrong blood on her cousin’s twin baby, who reacted and died moments later. The doctor identified as Dr. Joy allegedly refused to attend to the baby at the government-owned hospital. He was reported to have referred..
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Woman to sue Gauteng health department after giving birth to ‘decapitated’ baby in state hospital
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A 19-year-old woman who delivered a “decapitated” baby is planning to sue the Gauteng health department. According to eNCA, the woman had suffered with abdominal pain for a few weeks before she went into labour. The woman, who has not been named, spoke to eNCA. She then went to a general practitioner, who found that..
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‘Load shedding on water’:- Bertha Gxowa Hospital affected by water shortage
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The hospital has been without water for a number of days. The Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, has reportedly had to cancel major operations and divert patients to other hospitals due to a lack of water supply. The hospital has been without water for a number of days now. It’s alleged that..
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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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