Category: Health

Just News | The Free State Department of Health confirmed that a Second person has died of Cholera. The patient stayed at Parys in the Free State. This is a 42-year-old female who got admitted at Boitumelo Hospital in Kroonstad and unfortunately died. The patient is confirmed to have died and thereafter laboratory tests confirmed […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Limpopo is warning the community of the Thulamela Local Municipality of the potential deadly dangers of shutting down the supply of water from the local dam that has since stopped water to at least five hospitals, especially when Limpopo is faced with a […]

Just News | With World Malaria Day on 25 April, Vitality Health International, an innovative health insurer that rewards healthy living for employees in the rest of Africa (and owned by Discovery Group), has announced a partnership with social benefit organisation, Goodbye Malaria, to reduce the high incidence of malaria, a disease that is still […]

Tebogo Msimanga | Seven hundred and eight (R708) million is spent irregularly every year on security contracts for Gauteng hospitals. This was admitted by Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko in an oral reply to DA DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health Jack Bloom questions at Monday’s sitting of the Gauteng Legislature. MEC Nkomo Ralehoko […]

Just News | Black women living with HIV continue to experience forced sterilisation at South African public health institutions, the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Conference heard at Diep in Die Berg, in Pretoria, on Wednesday 22 March 2023. Organised by the Department of Social Development, the conference brought together policymakers, Civil Society Organisations, Researchers, and […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The Ministry and Department of Health welcomed the Labour Appeal Court judgment delivered on Monday regarding the ongoing strike by the trade union, NEHAWU. Health Minister Joe Phaalhla said there is no doubt that the strike has disrupted the provision of essential healthcare services in the country, leading to untold suffering and […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The North West Department of Health on Saturday placed it on record that the EMS officer who was caught by the law enforcement officers driving an EMS response vehicle allegedly for a personal matter is being investigated.  The incident happened during the festive season when the Department needed all its available resources […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The Department of Health on Sunday 01 January 2023 announced that it is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation in China and other parts of the world, and will issue an alert if the country needs to take extra precautions. A spokesperson for the National Heath department Foster Mohale said there is no […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The Gauteng MEC for Health and Wellness, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko has called for the police to leave no stone unturned to bring to book criminals who put patients’ lives at risk when they cut and stole a 10-metre copper pipe which supplies oxygen to various sections of the main Intensive Care Unit (ICU) […]