JOHANNESBURG – The Mineral Resources Department has appealed for vigilance on health and safety in the mining sector.
The appeal by the department follows the increase in the number of mining fatalities recorded in the first quarter of this year
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The death toll from the listeriosis outbreak could be much higher as countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region‚ do not have the testing and monitoring to detect listeriosis cases.
The disease is not a notifiable disease across Southern African countries‚ meaning doctors are not reporting each case to a centralised authority
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A public apology has been issued to the community of Phaposane‚ parents and learners at Pitso-Letlhogile secondary school by the North West Department of Health.
The department said it has “reflected on the incident of birth control injection of learners for prevention of pregnancy” at Pitso-Letlhogile Secondary School at Phaposane near Ganyesa.
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The listeriosis outbreak has been linked to Enterprise and Rainbow Chicken products which are now being recalled at all stores
JOHANNESBURG – The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has urged health workers to continue to be vigilant for Listeria symptoms after three more people died.
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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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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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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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Twenty-nine deaths have occurred in the province since early last year.
The provincial health department says that 88 of the cases were picked up in the Cape Town metro.
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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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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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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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It is calculated that dr. Barney Selebano was paid more than R1,6 million during his suspension while Dr. Makgabo Manamela received R700 000 during his period of “unemployment”. Both of them thanked both of their positions at the Gauteng Department of Health within a week and despite their inability to perform their work, both will..
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