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Health department vows to help victims with #Listeriosis litigation

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Cancer patients in KZN must ‘relocate to another province or die’ as last specialist in Durban resigns

Parliament – Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Thursday said his department would assist victims of listeriosis and their families with data to institute litigation against companies found to have sold food contaminated with a deadly listeriosis strain.

“Those members of community who want to litigate, we will give all the information, we will give them all the data, we will given them all the expertise to help them to litigate…,” Motsoaledi said in Parliament, responding to a highly charged debate on the outbreak, which has claimed more than 180 lives.
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Tiger Brands CEO – No evidence yet that Enterprise products directly led to deaths

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Tiger Brands has yet to see any evidence linking its meat products directly to the deaths of 180 people in a virulent listeriosis outbreak, chief executive Lawrence MacDougall said at press conference, on Monday

“There is no direct link with the deaths to the products, that we are aware of at this point,” MacDougall told journalists.
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The doors of Limpopo’s Enterprise factory in Polokwane remain shut after the health department confirmed on Sunday that the source of a listeriosis outbreak had been traced back to the facility.

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After a two hour meeting on Monday, management told workers that the factory would be closed until further notice.

Consumers who had gathered outside the factory’s shop on the outskirts of the CBD, to return affected products, expressed concern that they would not be refunded after they found a notice stating the premises would stay closed.
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How to keep your kitchen Listeriosis free.

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Although South Africa is far from winning its war on Listeriosis, the source of the outbreak was identified this weekend. It may just prove to be crucial in attempts to contain the disease.

So far, the bacterial infection has claimed 180 lives in the last 14 months, and there have been 948 cases reported to health authorities. Gauteng is the most severely affected area, with more than half of cases nationwide occurring in the province.
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Manufacturer of fast-moving consumer goods, Tiger Brands, today refused to take responsibility for the outbreak of food-borne listeriosis in the country

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Manufacturer of fast-moving consumer goods, Tiger Brands, today refused to take responsibility for the outbreak of food-borne listeriosis in the country, denying any direct links between the deaths of 180 people and its products.

At a press conference in Johannesburg on Monday afternoon, Tiger Brands chief executive Laurence MacDoughall said that consumer safety was of paramount importance to the company, hence it had decided to embark on a voluntary recall of its products as part of corrective steps in response to the health department identifying processed meats as one of the sources of the food-borne virus.
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Bathabile Dlamini gets served by SA Human Rights Commission

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Bathabile Dlamini gets served by SA Human Rights Commission

The South African Human Rights Commission has subpoenaed the Minister of Social Development‚ Bathabile Dlamini.

The subpoena is in relation to the Commission’s National Investigative Hearing on the Status of Mental Health Care in South Africa‚ which was held on November 14-15 last year‚ 2017.
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Listeriosis outbreak: Hunt for a killer bug

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Cancer patients in KZN must ‘relocate to another province or die’ as last specialist in Durban resigns

It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

The medical scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) have been trying to find the source of the listeriosis outbreak, but the haystack seems to grow larger by the day.

With over 900 cases confirmed through laboratory tests, the food-borne disease has so far claimed 172 lives across the country.
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Cancer Victims Made To Wait Up To Five  Months For Treatment – Livingstone Hospital

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Livingstone radiation machine faulty.
Livingstone Hospital’s oncology service is under siege, with some 300 cancer patients waiting for up to five months to access life-saving treatment because its only radiation machine frequently breaks down.
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North West Premier warned not to blur lines about Health Department’s HOD

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JOHANNESBURG – North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo has warned the province’s legislature not to blur the lines when instructing his office about the Health Department’s HOD.

The Legislature’s Committee on Health and the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) have asked the health MEC and premier to suspend HOD Thabo Lekalakala following fraud allegations.
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Dodgy viennas send more than 400 Eastern Cape children to hospital

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Dodgy viennas send more than 400 Eastern Cape children to hospital

A food poisoning outbreak at an Eastern Cape school has seen 430 pupils rushed to hospital.

On Thursday‚ an additional 180 pupils were taken to the St Barnabas Hospital following the food poisoning spell that hit Ndamase Senior Secondary School in Ngqeleni.
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SA health system was better under apartheid, says Malema

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SA health system was better under apartheid, says Malema

Public healthcare services were better during apartheid than they are now under the ANC government, EFF leader Julius Malema claimed on Monday. 

Malema was referring to what he called a “national health crisis”, which, he said, the EFF is planning to expose.
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A DECADE LATER AND OVER BUDGET BUT KIMBERLEY MENTAL HOSPITAL IS FINISHED

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Its a decade behind schedule and cost more than six times more that originally planned, but Kimberley Mental Hospital will finally be completed next month, Northen Cape officials assured MPs on Thuesday. Construction on the 286-bed hospital began in 2006. It was originally supposed to be handed over to the Northern Cape health department in 2008‚..
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Oxford University (UK) tested new TB vaccine on 1,400 South African babies which had caused the death of trial monkeys

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An investigation by the British Medical Journal has exposed a horrifying vaccine scam that took place in the same place that many unethical vaccine stories come from – Africa. There, babies were used as guinea pigs to test out a vaccine after the monkeys it was tested on died.

According to the report, nearly 1,400 infants in South Africa were given an experimental vaccine for tuberculosis by academics from Oxford University that was linked to monkey fatalities in tests. In an informational paper issued to the parents of the babies who got the jab back in 2009, it is claimed that the vaccine was “shown to be safe and effective” despite the fact that five out of six monkeys in the trial became so ill that they had to be put down.
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