The metro has denied claims that Yolanda Ferencak’s children were turned away from Birchleigh North Clinic because they are white. “The acting manager interviewed all the personnel at Birchleigh North Clinic. They indicated that none of them saw or sent away any patient or referred them to Birchleigh Clinic,” said Themba Gadebe, the metro’s spokesperson…
Continue reading…
Resident allegedly turned away from clinic because she’s ‘white’
Posted on Leave a comment
These are the cheapest and most expensive medical aids in South Africa
Posted on Leave a comment
The latest GTC (formerly Grant Thornton Capital) Medical Aid Survey for 2018 has been released, which compares local medical aid schemes on cost to members across various levels of cover. South Africa’s medical aid industry is facing an uncertain time ahead with government recently pushing through two new healthcare bills that are set to shake..
Continue reading…
Sha’p Left a Cipla Foundation initiative wins Vision 2030 Healthcare Award
Posted on Leave a comment
Cipla Foundation’s initiative, Sha’p Left, won the certificate of excellence award in the healthcare category at the recent annual 2018 Vision 2030 awards ceremony.
The Vision 2030 Awards creates awareness about the success stories of organisations, enterprises and individuals whose initiatives align with the government’s 2030 National Development Plan and strive to achieve the targets set therein.
Continue reading…
‘Private healthcare not affordable, even for people who are supposedly rich’
Posted on Leave a comment
The findings of the Competition Commission’s Health Market Inquiry released today reveal what Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says he already knew – that private healthcare has become so exorbitantly expensive, even those on medical aid can’t afford it. Moreover, the commission found – during its more than four-year-long investigation – that the market was characterised..
Continue reading…
Lack of water stops surgery at Themba Hospital
Posted on Leave a comment
Themba Hospital ran out of water again on Friday. By Monday morning, while the Department of Health assured Lowvelder that the supply had been restored, patients’ surgeries were still being postponed as a result of the shortage. During the newspaper’s visit yesterday, hospital staff and patients could be seen taking water in buckets up an..
Continue reading…
Hier is die 20 beste hospitale in SA
Posted on Leave a comment
Die resultate van die nuutste peiling onder pasiënte wat Discovery Health uitgevoer het om die beste hospitale in die land aan te wys, toon sewe hospitale wat al vier jaar agtereenvolgens op die lysie is. Lede van mediese skemas wat deur Discovery Health geadministreer word, het aan die peiling deelgeneem oor die hospitale waar hulle..
Continue reading…
Staatshospitale het ‘n te kort aan dokters – dit word nou ‘n krisis
Posted on Leave a comment
Die minister van gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, het sy saak bepleit in ‘n verklaring waarin hy sê dat daar 14 onkologie apparate is wat elk R40 miljoen werd is, maar daar is geen spesialiste om die apparaat te gebruik nie. Natal ondervind al maande lank ‘n probleem nie net met dokters nie, maar met mediese apparaat..
Continue reading…
Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is clueless – NHI cannot work in SA – to push ahead with it, is an act of desperation
Posted on Leave a comment
Plans by the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, to push ahead with the National Health Insurance (NHI), is an act of desperation. It is a decision doomed to failure from the outset. The minister is completely out of touch with the crisis in the South African public health system, and this was highlighted by..
Continue reading…
480 narkotiseurs kan SA verlaat oor swak NGV
Posted on Leave a comment
Indien narkotiseurs meen dat die Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering (NGV) en die beoogde prysbeheer ’n bedreiging vir hul beroep inhou, kan tot sowat 480 of ’n derde van hulle die land verlaat. Natalie Zimmelman, uitvoerende hoof van die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging van Narkotiseurs (Sasa), het Dinsdag op ’n mediakonferensie die uitslae van ’n peiling onder narkotiseurs oor onder..
Continue reading…
Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers
Posted on Leave a comment
Hellen Franz Hospital at Blouberg Municipality ka Limpopo must be placed under Administration,how can a Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers..? We can not allow ANC’s Phophi Ramathuba and her incompetent Managers to continue with killing of our people,this Hospital is now a Mortuary coz even if you go there with scratched finger,you..
Continue reading…