Claims of patients instituted due to medical negligence by the state’s institutions have risen dramatically, highlighting the extremely poor medical services in the health sector.
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Department of Health: Medical negligence claims increase to more than R104 billion in 2019 due to negligence & extremely poor medic services in health sector
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184 staff members of the Gauteng Health Services own private businesses and trade with government departments
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It has been revealed that 184 staff members of the Gauteng Health Services own private businesses that trade with government departments including the Health Department. These services include medical supplies, food, publications, funerals and even emergency services. Unconfirmed reports state that staff are sometimes in the “good position” to decide for themselves that the Health..
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Launching NHI is not going to improve healthcare – SA health services could face a shortfall of 400,000 nurses by 2025
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The government’s intention to launch a National Health Insurance already appears to be incoherent. Apart from the only two days the members were given to an advisory committee to determine which medical conditions would be covered, another “massive problem” has now emerged: Prospective nursing staff are hampered by the accreditation of Institutions where they had..
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SA hospitals are described as “death institutions” a National Health program will only create a disaster – free medical care for the entire SA population is not feasible
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The government wants to set up a National Health Program so that the entire population of South Africa can access free medical care. However, reality speaks volumes. After an unsuccessful term as Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi was “redeployed” to another sector of the cabinet. Under his rule, 143 patients died in institutions and hospitals..
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Government will create about 5,000 new jobs in the health sector, wonder if medical professionals will all come from Cuba?
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The state is about to create 5,000 jobs in the health sector. It follows Cyril Ramaphosa’s health indaba around the crises in the country’s health services. According to Aaron Motsoaledi, it is at present all they can afford even though more staff are needed. New beds and linen will also be purchased. Medical experts believe..
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Public hospitals in South Africa have become a death-trap for the poor
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Refiloe Nt’sekhe of the Democratic Alliance says that public hospitals have become a death-trap for the poor‚ says
The party has produced this checklist of the top eight problems that it says require urgent intervention‚ following inspection visits to hospitals and clinics over the past month by DA provincial health spokespersons Jack Bloom MPL (Gauteng)‚ Dr Imran Keeka MPL (KwaZulu-Natal)‚ Dr Tutu Faleni MPL (North West) and Langa Bodlani MPL (Limpopo).
Here is a summary of their report:
1. Chronic staff shortages and long waiting times
All the facilities lacked staff in critical positions.
At the Bongani Hospital in the Free State‚ they found that the facility only had one nephrology Sister to attend to patients suffering from kidney diseases. This was despite health norms and standards indicating that hospitals should have nine.
While inspecting the Paediatric Ward in Taung District Hospital in North West‚ the DA fo
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Doctor pleads for heaters for babies, gets departmental threats
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A Limpopo hospital is in such a state of disrepair that a doctor has taken to begging for donations to improve conditions for patients.
This act of caring, however, has led to the department coming down on him with threats of disciplinary action.
Patients at the WF Knobel Hospital in Ga-Matlala outside Polokwane have to brave icy winter nights sleeping in wards with broken windows, leading doctor LE Rambuwane to write a letter urging people to help him raise R15 000 to buy and install 50 heaters in the paediatric wards.
“It is with great sadness and embarrassment having to write this letter to you,” his letter starts.
“I serve in a public hospital, which lacks many things, and with very little support from the powers that be…” it continues, before his plea for the public to donate.
He hoped to raise R15 000, which would be used to buy heaters to be mounted in the paediatric wards. At the moment, he said, the patients were waiting with bated bre
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ANC looks to axe medical aid tax credits, expand National Health Insurance
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The ruling party says it’s time to get serious about funding and rolling out South Africa’s universal access to healthcare plan. Your medical aid tax credits could be back on the chopping block if a decision by the education and health subcommittee of the ANC’s national executive committee is anything to go by. The committee..
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SA Human rights lawyers arrested in Tanzania for ‘promoting homosexuality’
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The arrest in Tanzania last week of 13 people accused of the “promotion of homosexuality” has been called “a terrible human rights violation”. Two of those arrested are from South Africa and include well-known human rights lawyer, Sibongile Ndashe, executive director of the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (Isla). The arrests took place in..
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