Almost half the South African population has access to the internet, including 8-million Twitter users and 16-million Facebook users. This digital revolution has unlocked enormous opportunities for the creation of online communities for large-scale engagement around often complex topics like the management of health conditions. Enter the e-patient. A term describing individuals who are proactive..
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Medical Technology News South Africa:- Introducing the e-patient
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South African Paramedics fear for their lives as attacks on EMS crews continue
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Attacks on emergency medical services staff in the Western Cape continue with two teams of paramedics targetted attacked in separate incidents in the space of a week. On Wednesday a team of paramedics was held at gunpoint while responding to an emergency in Khayelitsha and on Saturday another group was attacked, also at gunpoint, robbed..
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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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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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Cannabis Cultivation: South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) awards first South African license
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Afriplex and House of Hemp have been granted the first medical cannabis cultivation license in South Africa. The compahasouse of Hemp have become the first to receive a Cannabis Cultivation License from the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). This represents a milestone in what is hoped will be a lucrative and innovative field,..
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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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New Research/Studies Confirms Cannabis Kills Brain Cancer, NOT Your Brain
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Some might say it’s too good to be true. Does cannabis really fight brain cancer? Research of the past two decades suggests that it does. Some might think that it’s too good to be true. Does cannabis really kill brain cancer cells? Clinical trials on humans are awaiting results, but recent research gives hope. Scientists..
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Gauteng Health signs Memorandum of Understanding with medical aid schemes
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The Gauteng Department of Health (GDOH), in partnership with medical aid schemes and their administrators, has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a public-private partnership. Through the MoU, medical aid schemes will support the GDOH in various activities associated with the provincial Health, Wellness and Happiness (HWH) campaign. This initiative is aimed at..
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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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