Health
Nurses picket over staff shortages at False Bay Hospital
Hospital is “currently experiencing more than double the workload they have seen over the past five years” says health department
News | 22 June 2020
Community healthcare workers down tools
Union wants outsourcing stopped and workers integrated with health department
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 19 June 2020
Life may be returning to post-lockdown normality but it’s far from normal in hospitals
Here are the latest numbers from Groote Schuur
GroundView | 19 June 2020
Covid-19 Report 7: Life-saving drug is good news but no time to pop champagne
Also: Four suggestions for improving peer review, and South African death data
GroundUp and Spotlight staff
Covid-19 Report | 18 June 2020
Family left without breadwinner after methanol poisoning deaths
Six men from Masiphumelele died last week after drinking homemade beer they bought
News | 8 June 2020
“Patients are suffering” due to severe staff shortage, says NEHAWU
“Stop the politics and work together with us” Eastern Cape Health Department tells union
News | 8 June 2020
Psychiatric hospital seeks interdict against SANCO and NEHAWU
Urgent application brought by Life Esidimeni Care Centre in Kirkwood after incident on Tuesday
Brief | 5 June 2020
Living with cancer during Covid-19
A breast cancer patient shares her lockdown experience
By James Stent
Feature | 5 June 2020
Covid-19: Mother fears for disabled daughter’s life
Woman with debilitating co-morbidities lives with five people in a shack that has no toilet
Brief | 5 June 2020