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Mpumalanga woman claims nurses left her to deliver her own baby

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The Mpumalanga department of health has dismissed allegations that a 31-year-old woman was left alone to deliver her own baby at a local hospital.

Ester Mnisi claims that nursing staff at Mapulaneng Hospital in Bushbuckridge ignored her pleas for help on Sunday, September 17, when she went into labour.

“It was on Sunday, around six in the morning, when I arrived at the hospital with my family as my water broke.

“We greeted the nurses, but they just kept quiet until we asked why. Their response was that they were tired and had been delivering too many babies on that day.

“They said they were about to wrap up for the seven o’clock shift and that we should wait our turn,” Mnisi said.

The Mpumalanga woman said she could feel the baby coming, but when she told the nurses this, they sent her off to a room.

“I started screaming and begged for them to help me deliver the baby. They dismissed me and said my time to deliver was still far and they left and slamm
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Annual Global Burden of Disease Study : SA’s development vs health progress gap

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South Africa has one of the greatest misalignments in the world between development and health progress. It is one of five countries where actual health burden rates far exceed what one would expect based on its income and education levels, plus fertility rates. So says the Annual Global Burden of Disease Study.

“Life expectancy in South Africa is rapidly increasing, but that doesn’t mean we’re enjoying healthier lives. Communicable diseases like HIV, car accidents, and waves of violence are taking the lives of far too many South Africans, especially young people. This is one of the few countries in the world where the number of healthy years that men and women can expect to live has fallen over the past 25 years. We have a lot of work to do,” said Professor Charles Shey Wiysonge, director of Cochrane South Africa and a co-author of the study.

The study’s main findings for South Africa include:

A South African man born in 2016 can expect to live 59.2
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Wes-Kaapse Departement van Gesondheid en Openbare werke beoog om uiteindelik nuwe staatslykhuis te bou na jare se uitstel

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Bouwerk het begin om die grootste staatslykhuis in die Wes-Kaap – wat 3 800 lykskouings per jaar doen – te vervang. Dit volg ná jare se beplanning en uitstel.

Die Wes-Kaapse departemente van gesondheid en openbare werke het pas aangekondig daar is begin met die projek van R281 miljoen. Dit sal 23 maande neem om die nuwe Observatory Forensiese Patologie-instituut te bou.

Die ou staatslykshuis in Soutrivier wat al sedert die 1950’s in gebruik is, sal nie meer bestaan nie.

Die nuwe gebou grens aan Hoofweg in Observatory en is langs die Kaapstadse Wetenskapsentrum geleë.

Die ou fasade van die oorspronklike gebou, die Pepsi Cola-fabriek, word om geskiedkundige redes behou en die res word nuut gebou.

Die gebou sal uit drie verdiepings bestaan, met 26 lykskouingtafels en vier areas vir disseksie sowel as areas vir opleiding.

Forensiese patoloë wat deels verbind is aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad en deels aan die departement van gesondheid doen lyk
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Five babies die in Gauteng hospital due to klebsiella ‚ hospital CEO suspended

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Five babies have now died from antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus as the hospital shuts down wards and struggles to find the source of this bacteria.

DA Gauteng shadow health MEC Jack Bloom said he discovered this when he visited the hospital last week to check up on sources who had told him that more babies had died after it was revealed two weeks ago that two out of seven babies infected with Klebsiella had died.

“I was informed that Klebsiella infection has been confirmed in 11 babies‚ five of whom have died.

“The first baby died on July 9‚ another in early August‚ two babies died on August 25 and another baby on August 28. They were all vulnerable low-weight premature infants‚” Bloom said on Sunday.

Bloom said the remaining infected babies had been isolated to prevent further infection‚ and the neonatal and labour wards had been thoroughly scrubbed down.

Bloom also welcomed the decision by th
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Noord-Kaapse LUR van gesondheid moet opdok vir bejaarde se onderbeen

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Die Noord-Kaapse LUR van gesondheid is Woensdag in die hooggeregshof in Kimberley beveel om die mediese en regskoste te betaal van ’n bejaarde man wat sy onderbeen weens mediese nalatigheid verloor het.

Regter Mpho Mamosebo het in haar uitspraak gesê dit ontstem haar dat ’n kundige soos dr. Qebelo Maseme, wat vir die LUR getuig het, partydig is. Sy het sy getuienis verwerp.

Patrick Erasmus (nou 76) se linkerbeen is in 2013 bokant die knie afgesit nadat hy aanvanklik vir ’n groottoon met infeksie behandel is.

Sy probleme het begin toe hy op 13 November 2012 vir ’n opvolgbesoek by ’n private dokter was.

Die dokter, wat intussen ’n skikking met Erasmus buite die hof bereik het, het ’n rekkie om die toon gebind om die toonnael te verwyder. Die toon is toegebind.

Twee besoeke later het die dokter Erasmus ingelig dat hy gangreen in die toon het en hom na die staatshospitaal in Kimberley verwys.

’n Senior dokter daar het op 20 November verde
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Steve Biko-hospitaal – Meeste hysers buite werking

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Die meeste hysers in die Steve Biko Akademiese hospitaal in Pretoria is reeds twee weke lank stukkend.

Talle pasiënte kan nie sekere prosedures ondergaan of dokters besoek nie.

Dié wat te siek of swak is om self by die trappe op te loop, sit en wag glo daagliks in die hospitaal se ontvangsgebied om kans te kry om ’n hyser te gebruik.

Prince Hamnca, woordvoerder van die Gautengse departement van gesondheid, sê op 3 September was die probleem op sy ergste, maar ’n kontrakteur werk sedertdien om die hysers te herstel.

“ ’n Aantal plekke in die hospitaal is hierdeur geraak, maar ons prioritiseer pasiëntsorg,” sê Hamnca.

Die departement het pasiënte en hul families om verskoning gevra vir die ongerief.

* Dinsdag is die 40ste herdenking van die moord op die struggleheld Steve Biko, na wie die hospitaal vernoem is.

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Waarskuwing rondom kodeïen

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Die SA Aptekers Vereniging het die publiek gewaarsku teen die misbruik van medisyne.

Die misbruik van oor-die-toonbank en voorgeskrewe medisyne is die oorsaak van verskeie gesondheidsprobleme.

Verkeerde gebruik van veral kodeïen-bevattende medisyne kan lei tot verslawing en selfs tot dwelmweerstandige siektes.

Die SAAV het die publiek versoek om seker te maak dat medikasie korrek gebruik word soos voorgeskryf om sodoende komplikasies te voorkom weens die misbruik daarvan.

Kodeïen verslawing kan lei tot aanvalle, lewer- en nierskade, depressie, angstigheid en selfs dood.

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Is SA’s healthcare getting better?

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Globally, noncommunicable diseases were responsible for 70% of deaths in 2015, up from 60% in 2000. Ischaemic heart disease was the leading cause of death accounting for 8.8 million deaths in 2015, followed by stroke (6.2 million deaths) and lower respiratory infections (3.2 million deaths).

Communicable (infectious) diseases, on the other hand, were the cause of 12 million deaths worldwide in 2015 (in total), especially in low-income countries. These diseases include lower respiratory tract infections, diarrheal diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

In South Africa, the number of deaths recorded in 2015 totalled 460,236 (compared to over one million births), indicating a 3% decline in deaths processed between 2015 and 2014. The majority of deaths were due to noncommunicable diseases (55.5% in 2015), an increase from 42.9% in 2005.

Interestingly, when compared to the global situation, the leading cause of natural deaths in South Africa in 2015 was t
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The maddening state of Gauteng’s psychiatric facilities

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A massive shortages of hospital beds for psychiatric patients in Gauteng is compromising patient care.

Gauteng is short of about 2700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards where there is no security, thus posing a threat both to themselves and others.

This was revealed recently by Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa in a 22-page statement handed to the Gauteng Legislature in response to questions about the state of psychiatric care for hospitalised patients.

By the time a person with a psychiatric illness is hospitalised, their symptoms are usually severe and patients may be suicidal or psychotic.

The World Health Organisation (using prevalence US figures) estimates that up to three percent of a population will have severe psychiatric conditions and need hospitalisation. This excludes figures for people with substance abuse-related disorders and post-traumatic stress – so it is likely to be an under-esti
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Swak higiëne by Thelle Mogoerane-streekhospitaal veroorsak dat babas sterf ná ’n uitbreking van ’n weerstandige Klebsiella-bakterie

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Twee pasgebore babas is dood ná ’n uitbreking van ’n weerstandige Klebsiella-bakterie in die Thelle Mogoerane-streekhospitaal in Vosloorus aan die Oos-Rand.

Klebsiella-longontsteking is in die hospitaal se neonatale-eenheid geïdentifiseer.

Lesemang Matuka, woordvoerder van die Gautengse departement van gesondheid, sê sewe gevalle van Klebsiella-longontsteking is in Julie geïdentifiseer “en het ongelukkig tot die sterfte van twee babas gelei”.

Monsters is geneem en is na die laboratorium gestuur om die bron van die siekte vas te stel.

Die hospitaal het sedertien maatreëls getref om infeksievoorkoming en -beheer te versterk en die eenheid noukeurig te monitor.

“Die departement beplan om ’n provinsiale taakspan te saam te stel wat deur ’n neonatoloog gelei word om deurlopend te kyk na die maatreëls om moontlike toekomstige infeksies in al ons geriewe te voorkom,” het prof. Mkhululi Lukhele, departementshoof, wat Woensdagoggend die hosp
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Hospitaal in De Aar word leeg gesteel en gevandaliseer terwyl die departement van gesondheid skynbaar niks daaraan doen nie

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Die ou Karoo Sentraal-hospitaal in De Aar in die Noord-Kaap word glo al maande lank bedags en snags “leeggesteel” en gevandaliseer terwyl die departement van gesondheid skynbaar niks daaraan doen nie.

Die waskamer se toerusting is gesteel of gevandaliseer, sê inwoners.
Hospitaal in De Aar word leeg gesteel en gevandaliseer terwyl die departement van gesondheid skynbaar niks daaraan doen nie

Só sê Martin Barnard wat in Visserstraat naby die hospitaal woon.

Dié hospitaal het in onbruik geraak sedert die nuwe De Aar-hospitaal ’n paar jaar gelede oopgemaak is.
Die skade moet al derduisende rande beloop, en dit word net nie gestuit nie, sê Barnard.

“Ek is geskok. Ons inwoners voel nou self bedreig. In die afgelope m
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Nearly 2 million will lose private healthcare if tax reform happens

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The government’s plan to ditch medical aid tax credits will have a disastrous effect on already cash-strapped South Africans and force nearly 2 million people onto the over-stretched state health system.

If the tax credit is removed, 22% of medical aid users will not be able to afford cover, Stellenbosch economics consultancy Econex warned in a report published on Friday – 1.9 million of the 8 million medical aid members, including children, will have to drop out of the private healthcare system.

In a national health insurance policy document released in July, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said he wanted to remove the tax credit to users, which amounts to R20-billion a year.

Medical aid schemes’ members get a tax reduction of R3,636 a year – or R303 a month. Motsoaledi said then that “the tax credit … we believe, is unfair”.

Economist Paula Armstrong, author of the Econex analysis, said the rebate was intended to “alleviate some pressure on the state [
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Edenvale hospitaal erg gevandaliseer deur ontevrede pasiënte

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Sekere dele van die Sizwe hospitaal in Edenvale is erg beskadig deur ‘n brand wat deur ontevrede pasiënte aangerig is.

Die aanleiding daartoe was dat ‘n verpleegster dwelms en drank gekonfiskeer het wat pasiënte ingesmokkel het. Dit het hulle woedend gemaak.

Hulle het daarop deur die hospitaal beweeg en enigiets wat breekbaar was, gebreek. Die gebou is erg gevandaliseer en die kombuis en ruskamers is skynbaar totaal vernietig.

Die hospitaal spesialiseer in die behandeling van vigs en tuberkulose.

Foto – Die Sizwe Tropiese Siektes Hospitaal, in ‎Edenvale, Johannesburg.
Die Vryburger, 22-08-2017

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Kind in Wes-Kaap dood aan witseerkeel

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’n 10-jarige meisie van die Nomzamo-township naby die Strand is dood en drie familielede is besmet met die hoogs aansteeklike bakteriële siekte witseerkeel, het die Wes-Kaapse gesondheidsdepartement Maandag bevestig.

Die meisie het op 3 Augustus positief getoets vir die siekte en is die volgende dag dood “weens die erns van die siekte”, sê Mark van der Heever, woordvoerder van die departement.

Die siekte is ook by die meisie se ma en twee sibbe gediagnoseer nadat die departement al haar gesinslede getoets het in ’n poging om die verdere verspreiding te keer.

Hulle het medikasie en entstowwe gekry,” sê Van der Heever.

“Meer as 600 individue is in hierdie spesifieke gemeenskap ingeënt,” sê hy.

Volgens die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie is 30 000 gevalle van witseerkeel en 3 000 sterftes wêreldwyd in 2000 aangemeld, in vergelyking met byna 100 000 infeksies in 1980.

Hulle het medikasie en entstowwe gekry,” sê Van der Heever.

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Could you have hepatitis and not know it?

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According to the World Health Organisation, Africa has one of the highest hepatitis infection rates in the world. Sadly, many people are unaware they have it.

Hepatitis affects 60 million people in Africa. Worldwide, an estimated 325 million people are living with chronic hepatitis-B virus (HBV) or hepatitis-C virus (HCV) infections.

What makes this particularly concerning is that many are unaware that they have hepatitis and are at risk of a slow progression to chronic liver disease, cancer and even death.

What is hepatitis?

Hepatitis is an inflammatory disease of the liver. The condition can be self-limiting or can progress to fibrosis (scarring), cirrhosis or cancer.

The most common cause of hepatitis is due to infection by one of the hepatitis viruses but it can be caused by other infections, medication, alcohol, toxic substances and certain autoimmune diseases.

What are the different hepatitis viruses?

There
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