A Durban man whose father’s mouth was infested with maggots after he was admitted to RK Khan Hospital says he will not rest until the staff at the facility pay for neglecting him. Azaad Ebrahim said he was livid with the hospital after his 52-year-old father Abdul, who suffered a stroke and had mobility issues,..
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Family left fuming as maggots found in mouth of Durban hospital patient
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David Makhura won’t list Gauteng’s worst hospitals – province’s public hospitals are in trouble, but some of them are basically ‘crime scenes’
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In a statement on Sunday, DA shadow health MEC Jack Bloom complained that Premier David Makhura had failed to clarify which were the five worst hospitals in Gauteng that would receive special intervention over the next 12 months, according to the premier. “In the printed version of his state of the province speech (Sopa) there..
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SA hospitale word as “dood inrigtings” beskryf en beoogde Nasionale Gesondheidsprogram sal op ’n totale ramp afstuur – gratis mediese sorg vir hele bevolking nie haalbaar
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Die regering wil graag ʼn Nasionale Gesondheid-program daar stel sodat die hele bevolking van Suid Afrika, toegang tot gratis mediese sorg kan kry. Die realiteit spreek egter boekdele. Na ‘n onsuksesvolle termyn as Minister van Gesondheid is Aaron Motsoaledi “herontplooi” na ʼn ander sektor van die kabinet. Onder sy heerskappy het 143 pasiënte gesterf in..
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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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Pregnant woman relates awful experience at South Rand Hospital – patients were forced to eat with their hands as no cutlery provided and ladies gave birth in the hallway
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NATASHA Janse van Rensburg feels she was ill-treated at South Rand Hospital during her time of labour. The 41-year-old from South Hills said she was admitted to hospital on May 16 and she was two weeks overdue. She claimed she was made to wait for quite some time until she was assisted and shown a..
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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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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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