‘n Peperduur hospitaal in Trompsburg in die Vrystaat, wat vier jaar nadat dit voltooi is eers oopgemaak het, word steeds nie ten volle gebruik nie en nog ’n hospitaal in dieselfde provinsie word net as kliniek gebruik.
Die Albert Nzula-hospitaal langs die N1-snelweg is in 2014 teen amper R400 miljoen voltooi, maar het eers verlede jaar sy deure vir pasiënte oopgemaak. Nou blyk dit sleutelposte is steeds nie gevul nie en operasieteaters, wat ten duurste toegerus is, staan in onbruik.
Patients say the feral cats have been sleeping in the general wards, sometimes climbing onto patients’ beds, and even stealing food out of patients’ plates.
MORE than 150 cats have made their home at the Vryheid Hospital.
Patients say the feral cats have been sleeping in the general wards, sometimes climbing onto patients’ beds, and even stealing food out of patients’ plates.
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Johannesburg – The National Health Education and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) Gauteng deputy secretary Gracia Rikhotso on Wednesday rejected as false reports that Charlotte Maxeke Hospital would shut down because its members were going to embark on a strike.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) this week warned that the hospital faced a possible shut down with staff downing tools over non-payment of overtime and performance bonuses. They were also concerns about unfilled vacancies.
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Sibongiseni Dhlomo, KwaZulu-Natalse LUR vir gesondheid, het die naweek tydens ʼn verrassingsbesoek aan die Church of Scotland-hospitaal pasiënte wat op bankies en die vloer slaap by die hospitaal aangetref.
Dhlomo het Sondag gevolglik vir die hospitaal se bestuur opdrag gee om ʼn gepaste plek te soek vir pasiënte om te slaap wanneer hulle oornag moet wag vir vervoer om hulle na ander hospitale in Pietermaritzburg te neem.
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‘n 65-jarige pasiënt is glo in ’n hospitaal in Port Elizabeth aangesê om in ’n kombers te urineer, weens die tekort aan bedpanne.
Donovan Nolan is in Februarie in die Dora Nginza-hospitaal in die stad opgeneem waar hy op ’n staalbedtrollie sonder ’n matras, kombers of kussing moes lê.
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As North West communities wait for the ANC to decide the fate of Premier Supra Mahumapelo, things have gone for bad to worse as health services in the province are close to total collapse.
Just when he was breathing a sigh of relief after the army’s health services – a team of nurses and doctors – took over collapsed health services at Mahikeng Provincial Hospital, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was told more health professionals were downing tools in other areas.
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A woman was allegedly forced to give birth unassisted at Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital.
A few days after it was reported on the death of a newborn baby whose mother had to give birth to him without any assistance from nurses or hospital staff at Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital, another mother has come forward, claiming she had to give birth in similar circumstances, Krugersdorp News reports.
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Die EFF in Tshwane het laas Donderdag ʼn mosie ter tafel gelê vir die stad se gesondheidsentrums om 24 uur per dag, sewe dae van die week, oop te wees.
Dít volg op die suksesvolle mosie in Johannesburg verlede jaar waartydens die raad ingestem het om heeltydse gesondheidsorg reg oor die stad te verskaf.
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’n Pasiënt van 41 jaar is in Stellenbosch se provinsiale hospitaal vermoor. Die man is vermoedelik verwurg. Sy lyk is Woensdag omstreeks 01:25 onder ’n hospitaalbed gevind. Die Wes-Kaapse departement van gesondheid het die voorval bevestig. Die man se familie is van sy dood in kennis gestel. Die forensiese dienste sal ’n lykskouing doen om..
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