Health
Doctors picket outside crisis-ridden hospital
More than 800 posts to be scrapped at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital
News | 10 March 2022
Staff shut down Uitenhage Provincial Hospital for several hours in protest over closure of TB hospitals
“They must bring us stats that say TB is not killing people anymore” says NEHAWU leader
Brief | 10 March 2022
Doctors are having to bring food for patients at Bara Hospital
Food supplies run out and medical waste piles up as hospital reaches “crisis point”
News | 10 March 2022
Godfrey Thulare was shot in the leg four times. He had to wait two weeks for surgery at a Tshwane hospital
Surgery on a gunshot wound should ideally be within six hours, says doctor
News | 4 March 2022
Netcare sexual assault centres: are they as publicised?
Rape Crisis advocacy specialist raises concerns
News | 2 March 2022
Hospital porters protest, block entrance to Groote Schuur
Porters lost their jobs when a new contractor was appointed
By Steve Kretzmann and Marecia Damons
Brief | 1 March 2022
Khayelitsha hospital staff overwhelmed with cases
The hospital has 340 beds but frequently has to accommodate nearly 450 patients
News | 25 February 2022
“We are hungry. Our pots are empty”
Hundreds march in Cape Town demanding urgent solutions to unemployment
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 24 February 2022
I beat an antibiotic resistant infection - but only just
Antibiotic resistance is not an abstract problem. It’s deadly and we can all do more to fix it
Feature | 24 February 2022