“So when we need help, do we have to accept that state vehicles are busy transporting families and cannot immediately respond?” the person asked. A concerned resident, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, informed the Standerton Advertiser about police who used a state vehicle as a taxi in Rooikoppen. The incident allegedly took..
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Police vehicle allegedly used for taxi service – no wonder there are no patrol vehicles available when help is needed since they are used for transporting services
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Government clampdown on private ambulances looms
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Durban – Stringent regulations would soon be in place to control the private ambulance services industry, and recommendations have already been accepted by the National Health Council.
Some of the recommendations include:
– all private emergency rescue vehicles to be painted in one colour;
– one contact number for all private ambulance services;
– the nearest ambulance responds to the scene; and
– no provincial demarcations for the different private ambulance services.
This is likely to receive resistance from the operators, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said this week.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, Motsoaledi said the department was looking at getting rid of untrained operators who had been contributing to the number of patient injury complications as a result of reckless handling of accident victims.
He said some ambulance companies employed unethical practices when arriving at accident scenes.
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How your medical bills may change under the National Health Insurance
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Many private hospitals will be opening their doors to more patients but does that mean you’ll be stuck at the back of the queue?
The United Kingdom’s universal healthcare system, known as the National Health Service (NHS), had a problem: By the early 2000s, a growing number of elderly patients were waiting up to three years for sight-saving cataract services in the early 2000s.
But the government-funded healthcare scheme didn’t have enough beds. It did, however, have plenty of parking.
“All we needed was a parking lot and a connection to three-phase electricity,” remembers South Africa’s Netcare CEO Richard Friedland.
Netcare entered the UK market fifteen years ago. It operates more than 50 private hospitals in the country, but 43% of its patients come from the NHS through the service’s electronic “choose and book” appointment system: Patients elect where to go for care, and the NHS pays private providers like Netcare a nationally-set rate
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Nuwe en moderne hospitaal in De Aar word wit olifant
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Die nuwe en moderne hospitaal in De Aar is besig om in ’n wit olifant te ontaard, sê die DA, wat vandeesweek ’n oorsigbesoek daar gehad het.
Isak Fritz, DA-woordvoerder van gesondheid, sê dit is hoog tyd dat Fufe Makatong, LUR van gesondheid, die hospitaal besoek.
“Die hospitaal met sy moderne geriewe en tegnologie kan nie benut word nie weens ’n voortdurende tekort aan personeel en vaardighede.
“Daar is net vier dokters wat die hele hospitaal staande moet hou, terwyl daar nie naastenby genoeg verpleërs is nie.
“Die departementele personeelafdeling sloer met aanstellings. Wanneer besluite uiteindelik geneem word, is die persoon reeds elders aangestel.
“Boonop is daar ’n gebrek aan onderhoud wat die gesondheidsdienste benadeel. Die lugversorging funksioneer nie, wat nadelig vir pasiënte is.
“Die rioolvuil by die personeelwonings is ondraaglik. Al wat die departement moet doen om dit op te los is om die kontrakteur se kontrak te he
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South African politics has never been so interesting, Jacob Zuma’s name is on the list of Free State parliamentarians, will have to see what happens to pro-Zuma and anti-Ramaphosa factions in due time
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The Free State list of nominations for parliamentarians has the name of Jacob Zuma as no.1 is on the list. The ANC in the Free State distanced itself from the list and declined it and called it fake news, but several people within the party confirmed that such a list exists and that Zuma’s name..
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The National Defense Force is looking for white recruits to join the army
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Young white South Africans are suddenly good enough again to join the army after government has once again started a program to recruit white Afrikaners. “Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has given a briefing to the defense force saying that the army must represent young men and women from the underrepresented communities and they should be..
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WE UNITE TO CALL ON THE WORLD: RECOGNIZE A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER
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Over the last quarter of a century, since the so-called “dawn of democracy” on South Africa, the White minority population in the country has been subjected to a variety of civil, legal, political, social, economical and humanitarian injustices. The White minority consists out of people recognizing themselves as Afrikaners, Boers, English (or other mother tongue)..
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Malema wants all of us to speak Swahili and it looks like his wish will soon come true after the basic education department announced the language will soon be offered at schools
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The EFF leader may be one small step closer to his wish after the basic education department announced the language will soon be offered at schools. In a video clip shared on Tuesday taken from an EFF media briefing from last month, EFF leader Julius Malema can be seen calling for the continent of Africa..
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It pays to be a criminal in South-Africa since unemployed ex-offenders will now receive a social grant for a transitional period after serving their sentences
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South Africa’s prison authorities have proposed paying unemployed ex-offenders a social grant for a transitional period after serving their sentences. The grant would provide thousands who re-enter society every year with some income while they try to put their lives back together. Ex-offenders with a criminal record find it hard to reintegrate into society when..
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Living the luxurious life funded by taxpayers- Ministers’ spouses take their free ride to international destinations
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Cabinet ministers have racked up a R7.6m bill on luxury travel for their wives, husbands, children and other relatives to international destinations such as New York and Paris on taxpayer-funded official trips. This has been revealed in answers to a series of written questions by DA MPs to each of the 35 cabinet ministers in..
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No wonder municipal service delivery is so poor in SA because 50% of city councils bosses are not qualified for the position they currently holds
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Nhlanhla Nene, finance minister, revealed that more than half of the country’s municipal managers and chief financial officers did not meet the minimum eligibility criteria for the position they hold. On inquiry, he said that only 79 of the 218 financial officers were properly qualified, while in nearly 40 municipalities there were vacancies for both..
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Medical negligence claims in public health sector rise by 25%
Coming from a black journalist: Do Not Forget, Blacks Stole The Land Too’ – One of the most hotly contested issues in contemporary South Africa is the issue of the land
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It is one of most central boiling points in a volatile nation that threatens to tip over, under immense pressure from disenfranchised black populaces, under brutal siege from far left fascist movements like EFF and COPE, and underwhelmed by massive maladministration from shamelessly corrupt ANC governance. One of the most dangerous and simultaneously unfortunate characteristics..
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Government’s so called land reform projects a complete failure – four former productive farms in the Eastern-Cape now derelict
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Government farms bought at a cost of R30-million for emerging black farmers in the Eastern Cape are lying in a state of forlorn abandonment. Saturday Dispatch investigated four of the farms in Komga and Igoda and found they had gone from being working farms on purchase to being unproductive and derelict. The farms were bought..
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Pasiënt kla oor haglike toestande by F.H. Odendaal-hospitaal in Modimolle
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‘n Hospitaal word geassosieer met higiëne en orde- Dit, sê ’n ontstelde inwoner van Modimolle, is egter nie die geval by die F.H. Odendaal-hospitaal in Modimolle nie.
Foto’s van haar onlangse besoek aan die hospitaal wys ’n stukkende kraan wat met ’n vuil verband “reggemaak” is, stowwerige vensterbanke, toiletpapier wat in die bad lê, vuil toilette, gebreekte glasdeure en rommel wat besoekers vanaf die parkering na die hospitaal begelei.
“Ek sien op teen elke besoek aan die hospitaal. Die personeel is ongeskik en laat die mense ure lank onnodig wag. As ’n mens durf kla, raak hulle aggressief. Hulle is traag om pasiënte te help en staan eerder met mekaar en gesels. Dit is ’n skande dat ’n hospitaal waarvan so baie mense afhanklik is, in so ’n toestand is,” het sy gesê.
Solomon Maphologela van die hospitaal se kommunikasie-afdeling het by navraag gevra dat inwoners liefs hul klagtes op skrif sit.
“Moet asseblief nie by die verpl
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