Durban – Despite having a good medical aid, Pinetown resident Hennie Botha, 52, is facing mounting debt of thousands of Rands because of the cost of his cancer treatment. He is not alone: the exorbitant cost of treatment for cancer in South Africa is way beyond the reach of most citizens.
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‘Pay or Die’: Huge Disparity in Cost of Cancer Treatment – A year’s supply of cancer medicine cost less than R32,000 in India, but costs R882,000 in South Africa!
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Mediese fonds lede kan hul staal vir verhogings van gemiddeld 8,8% in hul premies in 2020
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Die adviesfirma GTC waarsku dat lede van mediese fondse moet hulle staal vir verhogings van gemiddeld 8,8% in hul premies in 2020. GTC se hoof van konsultasiedienste oor gesondheidsorg, Jill Larkan, sê volgens Netwerk24 dat die Raad op Mediese Skemas (RMS) in sy 9 Julie omsendbrief aan mediese fondse verhogings van gemiddeld 5,4% voorgestel het…
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For those of you who can afford medical aid, here are the top 20 hospitals in SA
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Five new hospitals are among the top 20 hospitals in the country this year, according to the Discovery Health outreach. Busamed Hillcrest Private Hospital (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) has been on the list of 20 best hospitals for five years. Discovery Health first released the results of a survey in 2014, filling out members of the medical..
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Mom dies after Discovery Health ‘stops paying doctor for dialysis treatment’
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The family of a Northern KwaZulu-Natal woman who collapsed and died are seeking legal advice about pursuing a civil claim against a medical aid scheme for allegedly suspending payments for her dialysis treatment. The 53-year-old died earlier this month after missing four dialysis sessions. She had been on dialysis for two years. Discovery Health had..
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Future of SA private healthcare is looking ill
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SA’s private healthcare sector is under pressure to reform and adopt alternative billing models while the traditional fee-for-service model is coming under pressure, says Icon Group COO Dr Ernst Marais. The shrinking economy – with the country’s gross domestic product taking its biggest plunge since the 2008 global financial crisis, a 0.8% decline in household..
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Backyard abortion services – Male nurse faces criminal charges after allegedly trying his hand at being a doctor, botching an abortion at home
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The nurse was allegedly using his long weekend to try his hand at being a doctor, with unfortunate consequences. In a statement on Tuesday, the Gauteng health department said the Far East Rand Hospital in Springs had laid criminal charges against one of its nurses after he allegedly illegally performed a termination of pregnancy at..
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Tip-off leads to arrest of bogus doctor in Nigel –How many bogus doctors are actually operating in South-Africa and treating us?
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The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) said on Wednesday that a bogus doctor was arrested in Nigel in Gauteng following a tip-off. HPCSA spokesperson Priscilla Sekhonyana said: “The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) in collaboration with the South Africa Product Regulatory Authority and the Provincial Organised Crime Unit conducted an operation..
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Ill baby denied healthcare at state hospitals, as a result of very arrogant medical employees the infant died – death could have been prevented if medical team chose to do their job properly
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A Pietermaritzburg woman’s impassioned plea for nurses at two city hospitals to help her very ill infant fell on deaf ears and hours later the five-month-old baby died. After his mother was turned away from two state hospitals — Grey’s and Northdale — baby Brody Lee Bezuidenhout could not hold on any longer and died…
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Algemene Bestuurder van die Raad van Mediese skemas word geskors nadat dit aan die lig gekom het dat hy raad mislei het rondom besluite geneem ten gunste van seker organisasies
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Die Raad van Mediese Skemas het hul Algemene Bestuurder, Stehen Mmatli geskors. Hy word daarvan beskuldig dat hy die Raad doelbewus mislei het rondom besluite wat geneem is ten gunste van sekere organisasies. Hy is glo finansieel vergoed vir die “gunste” wat hy aan die partye betoon het en dui op die korrupsie wat tans..
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Doctors get a lifeline as government considers shortening internships from two years to one
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Shortening doctors’ internships from two years to one is being mooted to alleviate the strain in the training of doctors. Health department spokesperson Popo Maja said: “What we know is that one of the health stakeholders did entertain the idea of internship training being reviewed. But it is too early for us to say anything..
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