Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa has confirmed that more than 20‚000 patients have been harmed due to negligence in the space of two-and-a-half years at state hospitals in Gauteng. Ramokgopa quoted the figure in a written response to questions posed in the Gauteng Legislature by Democratic Alliance MPL Jack Bloom. When patients are harmed unintentionally‚..
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Gauteng hospital shock – More than 20‚000 patients harmed due to negligence
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Kliniek in Limpopo het glo geen medisyne vir diabete
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Geen antibiotika, hoesstroop of medisyne vir diabete nie. Dit is van die skoktoestande waarop Lindy Wilson, nasionale DA-woordvoerder, Donderdag op ’n oorsigbesoek aan die Waterval-kliniek in die Vhembe-distrik, Limpopo, afgekom het. Dit is ondanks 95% van die begroting van die hospitaal wat gebruik word om salarisse te betaal. Sy het ook die Elim-hospitaal in die..
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Shortage of pathologists an inconvenience to families
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Post-mortems are mandatory to determine the cause of death. The shortage of pathologists in the country has left several distraught families stranded. The situation has resulted in the delay of conducting post-mortems. Grieving families are forced to wait much longer before burying their loved ones. One family had to have a funeral service without the..
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Blood pressure medicine recalled due to cancer risk – but the regulator took three weeks to act
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A drug to treat high blood pressure for almost 12‚500 South Africans is being recalled after the active ingredient was shown to be contaminated by a potentially cancer-causing chemical. The recall‚ however‚ comes almost three weeks after the drug was removed from shelves in Europe‚ the UK and the USA because the Chinese manufactured active..
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Resident allegedly turned away from clinic because she’s ‘white’
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The metro has denied claims that Yolanda Ferencak’s children were turned away from Birchleigh North Clinic because they are white. “The acting manager interviewed all the personnel at Birchleigh North Clinic. They indicated that none of them saw or sent away any patient or referred them to Birchleigh Clinic,” said Themba Gadebe, the metro’s spokesperson…
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These are the cheapest and most expensive medical aids in South Africa
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The latest GTC (formerly Grant Thornton Capital) Medical Aid Survey for 2018 has been released, which compares local medical aid schemes on cost to members across various levels of cover. South Africa’s medical aid industry is facing an uncertain time ahead with government recently pushing through two new healthcare bills that are set to shake..
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‘Private healthcare not affordable, even for people who are supposedly rich’
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The findings of the Competition Commission’s Health Market Inquiry released today reveal what Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says he already knew – that private healthcare has become so exorbitantly expensive, even those on medical aid can’t afford it. Moreover, the commission found – during its more than four-year-long investigation – that the market was characterised..
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Lack of water stops surgery at Themba Hospital
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Themba Hospital ran out of water again on Friday. By Monday morning, while the Department of Health assured Lowvelder that the supply had been restored, patients’ surgeries were still being postponed as a result of the shortage. During the newspaper’s visit yesterday, hospital staff and patients could be seen taking water in buckets up an..
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Hier is die 20 beste hospitale in SA
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Die resultate van die nuutste peiling onder pasiënte wat Discovery Health uitgevoer het om die beste hospitale in die land aan te wys, toon sewe hospitale wat al vier jaar agtereenvolgens op die lysie is. Lede van mediese skemas wat deur Discovery Health geadministreer word, het aan die peiling deelgeneem oor die hospitale waar hulle..
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Staatshospitale het ‘n te kort aan dokters – dit word nou ‘n krisis
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Die minister van gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, het sy saak bepleit in ‘n verklaring waarin hy sê dat daar 14 onkologie apparate is wat elk R40 miljoen werd is, maar daar is geen spesialiste om die apparaat te gebruik nie. Natal ondervind al maande lank ‘n probleem nie net met dokters nie, maar met mediese apparaat..
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