The Conradie Hospital was opened in 1938 and was, at one stage, one of the top treatment centres for Spinal Neurodegenerative Disease.
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Good news for Cape Town:- The old Conradie Hospital earmarked for R3 billion development
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The ageing health infrastructure to receive urgent attention
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The South African government has committed to upgrading and maintaining the ageing and dilapidated infrastructure at public healthcare facilities.
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Ageing health infrastructure in South-Africa must receive urgent attention
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Deputy President David Mabuza has announced that government will prioritise the upgrading and maintenance of health infrastructure in an effort to deal with the challenge of ageing and dilapidated infrastructure in public health facilities. Mabuza made the remark while highlighting the outcomes of the two-day Presidential Health Summit held in Boksburg. During the summit, Mabuza..
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A New Healthcare Plan promises to overhaul South Africa’s massively skewed system
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Since 1994 South Africa has invested substantial resources in healthcare services. As a result, it’s has made significant health gains. For example, nearly 4-million people get HIV treatment and mother-to-child transmission has nearly been eliminated.
Service delivery has also been significantly expanded to more than 4000 health facilities. And there’s been a large increase in the number of healthcare professionals.
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North West News:- Clinics close and medicine runs out as state owes millions
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Mafikeng Provincial Hospital is running on skeleton staff and two clinics in the North West province have closed their doors because of a lack of security. Moreover, a failure to pay service providers has left many other health facilities without security and in short supply of drugs.
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Government intends to to improve maternal and infant survival with new project
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FPD was granted funding by MSD Global to implement a project to improve maternal and infant survival by improving the quality of emergency care for pregnant mothers and/or new born babies during ambulance transit between health facilities.
The project purpose is to improve maternal and infant survival by improving the quality of emergency care to pregnant mothers and/or new born babies during ambulance transit between health facilities through a combination of expert technical advice, material development, and training designed to develop the competency of advanced, intermediate and basic life support workers employed by government obstetric EMS.
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