Close to eight villages in Nxarhuni outside Mdantsane in East London depend on Newlands Clinic. But the clinic has only one doctor who comes in twice a month, according to a GroundUp report. A clinic committee member who did not want to be named said: “The doctor comes on the first Monday of the month,..
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Vital clinic in Eastern Cape has only 1 doctor twice a month
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Private healthcare environment compromised by unregulated fees
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According to Patrick Masobe, chief executive officer of Agility Health, healthcare specialists are able to invoice patients and medical schemes in an unregulated fee-for-service environment – in which every service performed has a code and a price tag – with secondary healthcare expenditure eating away at the medical scheme benefits of South Africans. “Among the..
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Intervention sought over ‘hospital horror’ at Warmbaths Hospital
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The Post received a lengthy complaint from Barry Bredenkamp regarding alleged poor service at the Bela-Bela (Warmbaths) hospital. Bredenkamp stated that a young man had committed suicide in the early hours of Sunday, 24 September, at Bela-Bela. Bredenkamp said that the man’s mother woke-up to the tragic news early on the Sunday morning and immediately..
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Ma wag op operasie, word ‘vergeet’ in stoorkamer
Dying Woman Verbally Assaulted and Ridiculed By Nurse In St. Mary’s Hospital [VIDEO]
Former Gauteng Health MEC. Qedani Mahlangu, Suspended From Studying At The University of Bedfordshire in the UK
Suid-Rand-hospitaal in Johannesburg het 4 031 geboufoute
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Meer as 4 000 geboufoute is in die Suid-Rand-hospitaal in The Hill in Johannesburg geïdentifiseer en dit voldoen glo nie aan die Wet op Beroepsgesondheid en Veiligheid nie. Dr. Gwen Ramokgopa, Gautengse LUR vir gesondheid, het dit in ’n geskrewe antwoord op vrae deur Jack Bloom, DA-woordvoerder oor gesondheid in Gauteng, in die provinsiale wetgewer..
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Medical aid waiting periods and late-joiner penalties: What. How. Why?
What’s driving up our healthcare costs?
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Discovery Health CEO explains why South Africans are paying higher medical aid premiums than ever before. Access to quality healthcare at an affordable price is a critical priority for every family, and in society at large. South Africans lucky enough to afford private healthcare have rapid and convenient access to some of the best quality..
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Cancer treatment waiting times in KZN increase by almost 30% as services stall
Nelson Mandela Bay Doctors Demand Better Security After Robberies And Break-Ins
Life Esidimeni: How good people come to do very bad things
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Arbitration reveals the skeletons in the Gauteng health department’s closet culture that gave rise to 141 deaths and continues to thrive. Levy Mosenogi could be described like many men who throughout history who have ended up on its bad side: a religious man and active in his community by his own account during his recent..
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Patient who was missing for nearly 2 weeks found dead in hospital ceiling
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The body of a 61-year-old man has been found in the ceiling of a hospital in Stellenbosch – two weeks after he underwent surgery at the facility, the Western Cape health department has confirmed. According to provincial health department spokesperson Mark van der Heever, the man was admitted to Stellenbosch Hospital, Cape Town on October..
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Man who was robbed and shot after car broke down on N4 freeway North dies
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The man who was robbed and shot after his car broke down on the N4 freeway before the Rosslyn off-ramp on Friday has died. The family of 45-year-old Chris le Roux Junior confirmed that he died in the early hours of Saturday at Steve Biko hospital. “We thought he was going to pull through because..
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