Health

Inquiry hears why violence broke out at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital

Department says it has no money to pay workers’ performance bonuses

By

News | 15 June 2018

Goedgedacht: a South African success story

Social development is a marathon, not a sprint, says Goedgedacht Trust founder

By

Solutions | 12 June 2018

Activists launch cell phone campaign for better health system

900 people sign up in two days

By

News | 11 June 2018

People’s Health Movement withdraws from NEHAWU

Anger at failure of union to “distance itself” from hospital protests that endangered patient lives

By

Brief | 1 June 2018

Mayhem at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital as workers demand performance bonuses

Hospital staff were intimidated and patients had to be locked inside for their safety

By and

News | 31 May 2018

Nurses call for Health MEC to be axed

KZN nurses say they are chronically short-staffed and underpaid

By

Brief | 24 May 2018

“We had no thermometer in the whole clinic”

Nurses at East London clinic say they are battling

By

News | 23 May 2018

How do we prevent South Africans from getting sick with TB?

Part three of a three-part series on a neglected disease that kills over a hundred thousand South Africans every year

By

Feature | 22 May 2018

Call to dissolve KZN Premier’s health intervention team

Employees say conditions at head office have become unbearable

By

Brief | 8 May 2018

Zimbabwe’s nurses complain of poor working conditions

Union says government needs to go back to the drawing board

By

Brief | 8 May 2018

Cape Flats residents criticise poor service at clinics

Long waiting times, rude nursing staff, and patient folders go missing, say residents

By

News | 3 May 2018

Khayelitsha hospital under the spotlight

Patients’ complaints prompt TAC meeting

By

News | 30 April 2018

Family wants answers after relative murdered in hospital

Tapiwa Chipika, a Zimbabwean, is believed to have been strangled in a ward

By

Brief | 29 March 2018

Community healthcare workers want to be public servants

“They take care of the frail, the sick within our communities; they bath them and make sure they have access to their medication”

By

News | 22 March 2018

How we’re fighting antimicrobial resistance in South Africa

Urgent work needed to end this public health crisis

By

Opinion | 23 February 2018

Killing rats: a clash of values

NSPCA and city’s residents disagree on how to do pest control

By , and

Science | 23 February 2018