#ExposeThemToHarm: South Africans are experiencing the dark side of socialism, as a Ventersburg woman, who was diagnosed with a cardiac arrest condition, had her ECG tests thrown away and was sent sent home with only some headache tablets, by a Virginia, Free State district hospital doctor! She died at home that same night and is the third heart attack patient at this hospital to die like this! The slow but malicious genocide through deliberate negligence by the socialist ANC carries on unnoticed, uncontested and unreported! South Africa used to have the best healthcare in the world, so there is no denying that it is deliberate!
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Slow Genocide: ANC Regime’s Deliberate & Malicious Negligence Keeps Killing us! Heart Attack Patient Sent Home with Paracetamol!
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Doctors at Nelspruit hospital can’t perform a simple splint procedure! After 3 attempts, anesthesia did not work and hand grows on skew
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As we have sadly come to expect from state hospitals nowadays, a mother and son from Nelspruit, Annelise de Beer and her son Nathan Barnard, had a nightmare experience at their local state hospital in Nelspruit, which caused the unfortunate 11 year old boy a lot of pain.
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ANC regime blows millions of rands on students to study medicine in Cuba – Costs amount to more than double the amount it would cost in SA
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Allegations are being made that the ANC Free State paid more than R330,000 per student to study in Cuba to become a doctor. This is more than double the amount it would have cost in South Africa, and the biggest problem is that the students did not graduate. It takes six years to graduate as..
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SA is besig om sy pas afgestudeerde dokters te verloor a.g.v. die regering se onvermoë om die hul te plaas waar hulle diens kan doen en die feit is dat hul nie betaal word vir dienste gelewer nie
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Die Suid-Afrikaanse Mediese Vereniging (SAMA) het beswaar aangeteken teen die reuse verlies van opgeleide dokters wat nou na ander lande verhuis omdat die regering hulle nie vir hulle jaar praktiese werk kan betaal nie.
Die uittog van pas afgestudeerde dokters is toegeskryf aan die Departement van Gesondheid se onvermoë om die dokters te plaas waar hulle diens kan doen, en waarvoor hulle deur die regering betaal moet word.
’n Woordvoerder van Sama sê die ernstige tekort aan dokters word verder in die wiele gery deur die Departement van Gesondheid wat nie hulle verantwoordelikheid nakom nie.
Hy sê die ernstige toestand soos malaria, tuberkulose, Vigs, en ander siekte toestande kan slegs effektief behandel en bestry word deur genoeg dokters wat ook kosbare ondervinding opdoen in die siekte toestande.
Sowat 440 mediese personeel wat nie geplaas is nie, en waarvan 400 beurshouers is, het glo die land verlaat omdat hulle hul beroep wil beoefen.
Deur: Die
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Staatshospitale in SA bloei weens tekort aan medici
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Daar is meer as 4 000 vakatures by Gautengse staatshospitale in kritiek belangrike poste soos dié van spesialiste, aptekers, dokters en verpleegkundiges.
Dié situasie het aan die lig gekom in die jaarverslag van die Gautengse departement van gesondheid wat onlangs in die provinsiale raad ter tafel gelê is, sê Jack Bloom, die DA se woordvoerder oor gesondheid.
Uit dié verslag blyk dit daar is net 40 316 opgeleide personeellede in diens uit die 44 558 goedgekeurde poste, wat op ’n tekort van 4 242 mense in kritiek belangrike poste dui.
Bloom sê die situasie word vererger omdat hospitale selfs met die goedgekeurde getal poste sukkel om oor die weg te kom, want daar is net al hoe meer pasiënte.
Die party doen ’n beroep op die departement om kritieke poste te vul wat dringend nodig is om die onderliggende bestuurs- en begrotingsprobleme op te los.
Hy is veral bekommerd oor die hoë omset van aptekers (54%), dokters (46%) en spesialiste (18%).
Health Professions Council of SA pursues bogus health practitioners
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A rise in bogus health practitioners has forced the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) and medical schemes to strengthen their forensics units to curb fraud. A team at the HPCSA is conducting about 400 investigations into bogus practitioners. To date, just more than 40 arrests have been made, but prosecutions are slow.
Data from this special investigation unit suggests that about 7% of all medical aid claims in SA are fraudulent and stem from both bogus practitioners and unscrupulous ones.
Estimates are that this type of fraud costs the private sector R22bn a year.
Bogus practitioners include those who had previously been registered with the HPCSA, but were struck off for various infractions, while others had no medical qualifications or experience and used practice numbers belonging to registered healthcare practitioners.
Eric Mphaphuli, a senior inspector at the council, said on Monday that, initially, his team had issues getting the police on board
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Attack on doctors at public hospitals in South Africa sparks security concerns
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The South African Medical Association (Sama), and its Eastern Cape branch, has condemned the lack of proper security at public hospitals in the province after a doctor was assaulted by a patient.
Dr Archie Solombela sustained a fracture to his right arm and a general worker was also hurt during the attack by a psyciatric patient at the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in East London. According to a report in the Daily Dispatch, suspected mentally ill patients are being admitted to general wards for observation, and because resources are so thinly stretched at government hospitals in the province this takes much longer than the standard 72 hours.
This is an unacceptable situation which requires urgent attention,” Sama said in a statement. “Of concern now is why no precautionary measures were put in place, considering the patient has a known violent history. This indicates either a lack of proper planning and coordination, or a lack of will to ensure the safety of hea
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Doctors Sound Alarm That SA Mental Healthcare Is Collapsing
OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY: Five years for careless doctor
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Emalahleni gynaecologist Danie van der Walt was sentenced to five years in jail for culpable homicide after one of his patients died after giving birth.
He had earlier been found guilty of gross negligence.
Witbank magistrate Merlene Greyvenstein said Van der Walt had failed to do everything a specialist of his calibre should have done to save the life of Pamela Daweti, who bled profusely after giving birth to a baby girl, Lisakhanya, on August 11 2005.
She died a day later.
“I find that the death of the deceased could have been prevented,” Greyvenstein said.
She granted Van der Walt leave to appeal both his conviction and sentence.
Van der Walt waited in the holding cells while his family paid his R10,000 bail.
Outside court Daweti’s uncle, Lungi Daweti, expressed mixed feelings at the outcome.
“The court has done everything in its power to ensure justice was done. We appreciate that. This has taken a strain on all of us. We will now start the
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Syndicates and devious health professionals may target National Health Insurance
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Criminal networks are targeting your medical aid rands but could you be part of the problem too?
Criminal syndicates and unscrupulous doctors may be defrauding the private health sector of millions as experts warn that medical schemes may reach a breaking point.
“The health care sector is being targeted by criminal syndicates and even devious practitioners. It is a direct threat to the financial viability of medical schemes in the country, including any National Health Insurance initiative we attempt,” says medical advisor on healthcare forensics at medical aid administrator and risk management service, Medscheme Gregory Pratt. Pratt was speaking at the Board of Healthcare Funders Southern African Conference this week in Cape Town.
“The affordability of medical schemes in the country will soon reach a tipping point.”
In 2013 alone, Discovery Health recovered R300 million in fraudulent claims alone – a number that in 2014 CEO Jonathan Broomberg told
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Healtcare Services Delivery need to change in Africa
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Healthcare services delivery in Africa needs to change, but no-one is quite certain how. What is certain is that future trends will be driven by access to big data, to shape new models of care in driving innovative, affordable and accessible services, across this diverse continent.
With 1,2bn people, many enjoying a longer life, and the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) there is a growing recognition of the importance of digital innovation in delivering curative and preventive care.
“The transition to digital healthcare offers opportunities to aggregate patient data from multiple sources – for example, from external healthcare providers and specialists who consult to the patient – to give them a single, accurate patient profile.
“This allows healthcare professionals to quickly connect all the dots in a patient’s care, with a view to focusing on optimum outcomes for the patient.In fact, a study in the Journal of Neurology found that putting a digital
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DA party file racism complaint after doctor tells MP to adjust her “white mentality”
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The DA are set to file a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), claiming that a doctor at Bela Bela hospital was racist towards their MP. Jacques Smalle is the provincial leader for the party in Gauteng. He was conducting an oversight of the facility – just north of Pretoria – alongside the..
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Medical fraud costs the country’s economy
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The phenomenon of suspiciously qualified or unqualified doctors opening shop in some township and attracting unsuspecting patients has become a concerning norm.
Discussions and debate are focused on state capture and its effect on the economy, but there’s another beast eating away at productivity, hurting the economy and undermining our health system. South Africa is open for medical fraud business.
Medical fraud manifests in two ways: bogus doctors in practice and bogus medical certificates issued to rob employers by keeping an employee away from work while earning a salary.
The phenomenon of suspiciously qualified or unqualified doctors opening practices in some townships and attracting unsuspecting patients has become a concerning norm. Just recently a bogus doctor was caught and arrested at his Mpumalanga surgery in front of patients, some of whom he had prescribed highly regulated schedule 4+ drugs.
These bogus doctors – and even dentists and special
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Is your GP contracted in to a medical scheme network?
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If GPs are contracted in to a medical scheme network, they might be pressurised to recommend cheaper treatment options and medications, say SA health bodies.
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) and the IPA Foundation (IPAF) is extremely concerned at the comments made recently by the Health Professions Council of South Africa concerning Designated Service Providers (DSPs).
The HPCSA recently released a statement to the effect that healthcare practitioners should be cautious when concluding designated service provider (DSP) agreements with medical schemes as the medical schemes attempted to reduce costs by applying pressure on practitioners within a DSP network to prescribe medication or recommend treatment options, when other more appropriate, albeit more expensive, options were medically indicated and readily available.
Pushing healthcare costs down
In the current environment where there are no regulated tariffs for healthcare procedures,
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Manage your medical expenses during winter season to obtain optimal value
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To obtain optimal value from your medical scheme plan, it’s critical to fully understand the scope of benefits it offers and to manage those prudently.
To obtain optimal value from your medical scheme plan, it’s critical to fully understand the scope of benefits it offers and to manage those prudently. It’s an especially important consideration during the winter months. This is according to Dr James Arens, clinical operations executive at Pro Sano medical scheme.
Minor ailments like a recurrent common cold, for example, may not necessarily require repeated doctor visits that could potentially use up benefits that might be more appropriately used elsewhere.
Dr Arens points out that the economic climate in recent years has seen many South Africans downscaling on their lifestyles.
“This often means ‘buying down’ when it comes to medical scheme cover. It’s understandable that when money is scarce, people wish to pay as little as possible while sti
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