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Healthcare

NHI Bill highlights the crucial role of proper maintenance in healthcare facilities

Lydia Hendricks 11 Jul 2024

Healthcare

Caesarean births: South Africa’s rates are too high – they can be dangerous for mothers and babies

Priya Soma-Pillay and Andre Van Niekerk 27 May 2024

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Healthcare

Caesarean births: SA’s rates are too high – they can be dangerous for mothers and babies

Priya Soma-Pillay and Andre van Niekerk 7 May 2024

Healthcare

Widening private health access outpaces NHI progress

30 Apr 2024

South Africa needs to accelerate its focus when it comes to addressing mental health issues

Healthcare

South Africa needs to accelerate its focus when it comes to addressing mental health issues

Issued by Bullion PR & Communication 3 Apr 2024

Healthcare

SA doctors make up to 40 times more than those in Kenya and Nigeria

Zano Kunene 5 Apr 2024

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Kenyan doctors strike over pay and training extends into third week

George Obulutsa and Duncan Miriri 3 Apr 2024

Property

The 2024 property gold rush: prices soar, stocks shrink and early birds secure the worm!

6 Feb 2024

Healthcare

Latest stats spark urgent $45m long Covid response

27 Sep 2023

Healthcare

Stellenbosch medical students use tech to turn the tide on organ donor shortage

12 Jul 2023

Source: Supplied. Morgan Mkhatshwa, clinical executive of Bonitas Medical Fund.

Healthcare

How we're defying load shedding and its impact on patient medicine regimes -Bonitas

Morgan Mkhatshwa 4 Jul 2023

Ask Afrika supports SAHARA's efforts at preventing substance abuse

ESG & Sustainability

Ask Afrika supports SAHARA's efforts at preventing substance abuse

Issued by Ask Afrika 19 Apr 2023

Healthcare

Hospitals buckling under pressure

22 Sep 2022

Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Legal

Mom wins court battle against medical scheme

Tania Broughton 29 Aug 2022

Healthcare

Nursing shortage - government holds the trump card!

Teresa Basson 27 Sep 2022

How private, public shelters are helping GBV survivors get their lives back on track

ESG & Sustainability

How private, public shelters are helping GBV survivors get their lives back on track

15 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters. South African surgeons Dr Tim Forgan and Dr Imraan Mia use a robot called DaVinci to perform delicate operations at the Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town.

Healthcare

Cape Town hospital uses robot at forefront of surgery in Africa

Wendell Roelf and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo 22 Jul 2022

Healthcare

Caring for our young doctors is good medicine

Dr Brenda Kubheka 8 Jul 2022

Healthcare

'I Am' movement of SA health workers throws down the gauntlet to health minister and Gauteng premier

24 Jun 2022

Source: REUTERS. Vuhlari Mtonga, one of the South African medical students who fled Ukraine, is embraced by her sister, Mikateko Mtonga, after arriving at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in March 2022.

Healthcare

SA medical students flee Ukraine - not too long ago it was Cuba, remember?

Collette Marais 1 Jun 2022

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Mokonyane lied about Bosasa favours, Zondo finds

Valencia Talane 17 Mar 2022

10GB data for every household, says communications minister Ntshavheni

ICT

10GB data for every household, says communications minister Ntshavheni

16 Feb 2022

International Childhood Cancer Day drives better access to care for children and adolescents with cancer

Healthcare

International Childhood Cancer Day drives better access to care for children and adolescents with cancer

Issued by Icon Oncology 15 Feb 2022

Healthcare

International Childhood Cancer Day: Driving better access to care

14 Feb 2022

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Education

Eligible South Africans invited to apply for Mauritius-Africa Scholarship

11 Jan 2022

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Education

Nelson Mandela University officially opens its medical school

1 Dec 2021

Source: ©Mark Bowden

Healthcare

First non-invasive benign prostate procedure performed in SA

11 Nov 2021

Source: ©supplied by agency 3,400 EVDS users, 380 contact centre staff and over 3,100 vaccinators have been trained to use the EDVS

Healthcare

Over 18-million vaccines administered save over 47,700 lives

12 Oct 2021

Groote Schuur is one of South Africa’s biggest teaching hospitals. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Healthcare

Covid-19: A glimpse behind the scenes at Groote Schuur Hospital

James Stent 12 Aug 2021

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Healthcare

Vaccine inequality makes a case for African pharma opportunities

Julie Oppenheim, Daniel Mwathe & Micael Sehul 28 Jul 2021

SA govt plans troop surge to quell unrest - reports

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SA govt plans troop surge to quell unrest - reports

Rogan Ward and Siyabonga Sishi 15 Jul 2021

A healthcare worker assists a patient being treated at a makeshift hospital run by charity organisation The Gift of the Givers, during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 11, 2021. Reuters/ Sumaya Hisham

Healthcare

In South African Covid-19 ward, medics battle worst infection wave yet

Sisipho Skweyiya 13 Jul 2021

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Healthcare

Water, power cuts and neglect are taking their toll on South Africa's top hospitals

Daynia Ballot 8 Jul 2021

Gauteng premier, David Makhura. Source:

Healthcare

Gauteng "on fire" as Covid-19 infections skyrocket

22 Jun 2021

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Healthcare

There are alternate solutions to SA's ill-fated NHI

31 May 2021

Outreach Engineering, Wits Healthcare Innovation merge to scale impact

ESG & Sustainability

Outreach Engineering, Wits Healthcare Innovation merge to scale impact

7 May 2021

New cerebral palsy research may have profound impact on medicolegal cases

Healthcare

New cerebral palsy research may have profound impact on medicolegal cases

5 May 2021

Workers at India’s biggest syringe manufacturer ramp up production in September 2020 in race to meet Covid-19 vaccine-driven demand. Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Why India is banking on health diplomacy to grow African footprint

Dan Banik & Renu Modik 26 Mar 2021

Healthcare

More than 67,000 health workers vaccinated so far

1 Mar 2021

Healthcare

#BizTrends2021: African demands for post-Covid healthcare align impact with investor opportunity in 2021

Jason Mitchell 11 Jan 2021

Spatial applications show where the Covid-19 vulnerable populations and active cases are, where to find care, and where there are resource gaps. Bushko Oleksandr/Shutterstock

Healthcare

The 'science of where', or GIS, fortified Kenya's response to Covid-19. Here's how

Peter Macharia 6 Nov 2020

Mthokozisi Maphumulo, associate and litigation attorney, Adams and Adams

Healthcare

Will medical negligence cases spike post Covid-19?

Mthokozisi Maphumulo 17 Sep 2020

Shiraaz Joosub, healthcare sales executive,T-Systems South Africa

Healthcare

Sustainable interoperability is key to quality integrated public healthcare in South Africa

Shiraaz Joosub 16 Sep 2020

Signs of daily Covid-19 infections stabilising

Healthcare

Signs of daily Covid-19 infections stabilising

3 Aug 2020

A nurse participates in the drill to test their system capabilities for the Covid-19 coronavirus mass patients influx at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi.

Healthcare

Covid-19 exposes weaknesses in Kenya's healthcare system. And what can be done

Abdu Mohiddin & Marleen Temmerman 29 Jul 2020

SA alcohol ban inconsistent with global Covid-19 response - industry

Retail

SA alcohol ban inconsistent with global Covid-19 response - industry

29 Jul 2020

A nurse demonstrates how to perform a swab test in Johannesburg, South Africa. Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

10 ways South Africa can step up care for its healthcare workers

Kaymarlin Govender, Gavin George, Sean Beckett & Tim Quinlan 23 Jul 2020

Gauteng Health MEC, Dr Bandile Masuku

Healthcare

Webinar: Gauteng is ready for the storm, says health MEC

Nicci Botha 21 Jul 2020

Healthcare

SA's first Covid-19 vaccine trial starts

23 Jun 2020

Dr Keith Cloete, head of department, Western Cape Health

Healthcare

Western Cape opts for high-flow nasal oxygen in severe cases of Covid-19

5 Jun 2020