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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Kliniek in Limpopo het glo geen medisyne vir diabete
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Eerste tenders vir omstrede nasionale gesondheidsversekering uitgereik
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Die eerste tenders vir die omstrede nasionale gesondheidsversekering (NGV) is uitgereik. Die departement van gesondheid soek voorstelle van die private sektor oor hoe om vyf programme – sommiges wat tans katastrofies deur staatshospitale behartig word – reg te ruk. Net drie van die land se grootste administrateurs van mediese fondse het opgedaag vir die inligtingsessie..
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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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Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is clueless – NHI cannot work in SA – to push ahead with it, is an act of desperation
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Plans by the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, to push ahead with the National Health Insurance (NHI), is an act of desperation. It is a decision doomed to failure from the outset. The minister is completely out of touch with the crisis in the South African public health system, and this was highlighted by..
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Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers
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Hellen Franz Hospital at Blouberg Municipality ka Limpopo must be placed under Administration,how can a Hospital operate without Lights,Toilet Papers,Panado, and Pain Killers..? We can not allow ANC’s Phophi Ramathuba and her incompetent Managers to continue with killing of our people,this Hospital is now a Mortuary coz even if you go there with scratched finger,you..
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Traditional healer opens traditional hospital in KZN – only in South-Africa!
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A traditional healer from Ingwavuma in the north of KZN has made history by forming a private hospital in Bhambanana area at Mhlabuyalingana. Dr Mxolisi Nkomonde (33), who is known as Dr Mkhulu, has opened a traditional hospital called Dr K Traditional Hospital, where he treats patients who are in need of traditional treatment. He..
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Nuwe gesondheidsorg in die vooruitsig
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Die afskaffing van bybetalings op mediese dienste is een van die aanbevelings van die voorgestelde wet op mediese dienste. Volgens Aaron Motsoaelidi, minister van gesondheid, kan slegs 10% van die bevolking private gesondheidsorg bekostig en moet dit onmiddelik reggestel word. Tussengangers gaan ook afgeskaf word om te verseker dat lede direk gelde aan die mediese..
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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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