Category: Health

Tebogo Msimanga | Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla has been concerned for some time with this matter of load-shedding with the hope that it improves, but it has gotten worse to higher levels of 5 and 6 as it impacts the provision of health care services across the country. Minister has ordered the Director-General, […]

Just News | Mpumalanga Police on Thursday arrested a fake Pharmacist, aged 24 on allegations of unlawfully selling schedule 6 medication to some patrons. According to the report, information regarding a suspect selling certain medication to people without legal authorisation was brought to the attention of the members, supplied by the Intelligence structure of the […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The lack of family support, high levels of poverty, absence of partners – are some of the leading reasons expressed by women as their need to turn to drinking alcohol during pregnancy. This was told to Deputy Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu during her engagement with the community of Boitekong in the North West […]

Just News | DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health Jack Bloom says Gauteng Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi on Monday, ducked his questions at a sitting of the Gauteng Legislature on why a forensic investigation into suspicious payments by the Tembisa Hospital was not done a year ago when murdered whistleblower Babita Deokaran requested it. According […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The National Department of Health says it has been inundated with media queries to weigh in on the current debate prompted by MEC for health Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba, in a video recorded in Bela Bela hospital. In a video, MEC Ramathuba is heard saying Zimbabweans are placing strain on the […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The Democratic Alliance (DA) says Gauteng residents are still paying for the salary of nine officials from Gauteng’s Department of Infrastructure Development and Health, seven months after their suspension. The officials were suspended because of the irrational decision to spend more than half a billion rand on refurbishing the Anglo Gold Ashanti […]

Tebogo Msimanga | Gauteng Premier, David Makhura has noted the media interest in the latest developments of the Babita Deokaran murder investigation. The late Deokaran, Chief Director: Financial Accounting in the Department of Health was gunned down in her driveway in August 2021. She was a critical witness in the investigation by the Special Investigative […]

Tebogo Msimanga | The Democratic Alliance on Monday reiterated that patients are suffering due to an operating theatre that has been broken for three months at the Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto, but it’s a symptom of a far larger problem at this troubled hospital. In October 2020 the hospital CEO Ruth Mabyana was put […]