Die Solidariteit Beroepsgilde vir Gesondheidspraktisyns het vandag tydens ʼn konferensie gesê dat indien daar nie dringend ingegryp word en oplossings gevind word vir die enorme tekort aan verpleegpersoneel nie, staar ons ʼn moontlike nasionale gesondheidskrises in die oё. “Een van die grootste uitdagings in die verpleegbedryf in Suid-Afrika is die tekort aan verpleegpersoneel. Daar is..
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Enorme tekort aan verpleegpersoneel in SA – impak daarvan op goeie gesondheidsorg vir miljoene Suid-Afrikaners is byna ondenkbaar
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Failing health system in spotlight ahead of vote – psychiatric patients tied to bed in emergency ward of SA’s biggest hospital – is this the guaranteed basic treatment that ANC-regime promised South Africans when it came to power in 1994?
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Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the country’s dire healthcare crisis is starkly evident. Some of the group are restrained using just medical bandages, while one screaming female patient is tied to a bed that is itself..
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Skokkende statistieke oor verpleegsters se swak werkomstandighede in Suid-Afrika
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Daar is tans vele uitdagings en probleme wat die verpleegprofessie in die gesig staar. Verpleegkundiges in Suid-Afrika gaan gebuk onder onveilige werkomstandighede, uitbranding en gebrekkige hulpbronne in die werkplek. Suid-Afrika het altesaam 3 816 openbare gesondheidsorginstellings. Die Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) het vir die tydperk 2016-2017 inspeksies by 969 (25%) gesondheidsorginstansies regoor SA..
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At the end of white-minority rule SA’s Health System under management of ANC-regime is failing and in spotlight ahead of election
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Voting this year will mark 25 years since the end of apartheid rule, but hopes have been dashed that the new era would produce a modern, accessible public health service. Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the..
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Backyard abortion services – Male nurse faces criminal charges after allegedly trying his hand at being a doctor, botching an abortion at home
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The nurse was allegedly using his long weekend to try his hand at being a doctor, with unfortunate consequences. In a statement on Tuesday, the Gauteng health department said the Far East Rand Hospital in Springs had laid criminal charges against one of its nurses after he allegedly illegally performed a termination of pregnancy at..
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Amputated limbs and dead babies regularly found at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital’s laundry
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A woman who works in the laundry section of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg says she frequently deals with an array of horror finds among the linen – from amputated limbs to babies; dead and alive. “I have been working here for several years and we are never sure what we will find when we..
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Verslag oor swak diens in staatshospitale saamgestel om verantwoordbaarheid in die gesondheidsektor te verhoog
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AfriForum het die publiek genooi om hul ervarings van treurige dienslewering en behandeling by hospitale en klinieke met dié organisasie te deel in ʼn poging om die swak plekke in die Suid-Afrikaanse gesondheidstelsel bloot te lê. Dr. Eugene Brink, strategiese raadgewer vir gemeenskapsake by AfriForum, sê die organisasie word toenemend met klagtes van swak behandeling..
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Springs Clinic allegedly out of chronic medication for the past two weeks – Patients have been turned away
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Patients have been turned away from the Springs Clinic in the East-Rand, for the past two weeks as the facility allegedly does not have certain types of chronic medication. Patients are unhappy about the way they have been treated by the staff at the Springs Clinic. Bester went on to allege that last Monday, the..
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Unqualified people to masquerade as doctors and nurses – Did the Health Professions Council trade cash for qualifications?
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The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is awaiting the president’s go-ahead to investigate allegations that Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPSCA) employees may have taken bribes in exchange for medical registrations and board exam passes. HPSCA ombud Munyadziwa Kwinda recently revealed the allegations while speaking at a symposium held by the Wits Students’ Bioethics Society…
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Groot aantal onwettige immigrante wat hulle wend tot Suid-Afrika se mediese dienste plaas geweldige druk op die gesondheidstelsel, maar ANC-regime sê hy het ’n plan!
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Die ANC se Minister van Gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, het omstanders probeer paai deur te sê dat die regering wel ’n plan het met immigrante wat in SA se hospitale beland. Die minister het egter nie uitgewei om te verduidelik wat die plan behels nie, wat die vermoede laat bestaan dat die minister iets uit sy..
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