Under this mortifying and morbid circumstances that characterise the department of Health in Gauteng why has Section 100(b) not been applied to this department since the Provincial government has failed to address issues of Social Justice in Health care. One should also indicate that the negligence of the sickly and abuse of public resources is..
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THE HORRIFIC AND BARBARIC STATE OF HOSPITALS IN GAUTENG UNDER THE ANC REGIME
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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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Overcrowding at Tembisa Hospital’s maternity ward sparks outcry – 192 souls in a ward that was supposed to occupy 51 patients – patients sleeping on floor and chairs
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A social media post showing an overcrowded maternity ward at Tembisa Hospital in Ekurhuleni sparked outcry over the underresourced care that pregnant women receive and the overwhelming working conditions that midwives and nurses at Gauteng hospitals find themselves in. The hospital has conceded to being faced with overcrowding, saying it had raised the issue with..
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State hospitals in distress! Addington Hospital patients go without food after lifts stop working
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Durban – Patients at Durban’s Addington Hospital had to go without breakfast on Wednesday as lifts in the 16-storey building had stopped working. Wayne Twynham said he has to regularly carry his 72-year-old uncle, who has had one leg amputated, upstairs because the lifts are often not in working order. “He lost his foot during..
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Ontstellende agteruitgang van staatshospitale en mediese sorg fasiliteit tydens ANC bewind
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Sedert 1994 het die mediese sorg fasiliteite en veral staatshospitale met rasse skrede agteruitgegaan. Die eens hoogs aangeskrewe opleidings hospitale soos HF Verwoerd Hospitaal, Johannesburg Algemene Hospitaal, Tygerberg Hospitaal en Universitas Hospitaal in Bloemfontein het van die beste dokters opgelewer in die kontinent. Tans sukkel Universitas Hospitaal met ‘n uittog van spesialiste wat nie meer..
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Gruesome discovery as man’s decomposed body found in ceiling at Mahatma Gandhi hospital, Durban hospital after cleaners and nurses were troubled by a strong stench from the linen room
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The decomposed body of a man was discovered in the ceiling of a hospital in Durban on Friday. The gruesome discovery was made by members of Search and Rescue, the Durban K9 unit and police officials who were called out to the trauma unit of the Mahatma Gandhi hospital in Phoenix, south of Durban. Police..
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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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