Mosquitoes halt Durban hospital surgery
South Africa | 16 May 2017, 12:24pm ZAINUL DAWOOD DURBAN – A Bluff woman claimed that doctors would not conduct a medical procedure on her 81-year-old mother due to a mosquito infestation in the theatre…
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KZN doctors sidelined as Libyans get specialist training
Kwa-Zulu Natal | 30 April 2017 Nabeelah Shaikh Durban – As a critical shortage of specialist doctors in KwaZulu-Natal looms, and the newly-qualified wait to be employed, the province has opened its doors to 40…
KZN health in bad state
KATHARINE CHILD | 2017-04-18 07:54:44.0 Image by: Gallo Images/Thinkstock The healthcare system is collapsing in KwaZulu-Natal as hospitals are short-staffed and filled with broken equipment. “Every day it gets worse,” said the head of the…
Healthcare despots march us to a bitter end
BY LEON LOUW, 31 AUGUST 2016, 06:01 Picture: SUNDAY TIMES Related articles Commission hears data on WHO report on high price of hospital care in SA YOU are a chemical process. Not a person in…
Patients told to pretend they’ve been assisted
Department of Health has launched an internal investigation into the services provided by nurses at the Rethabile Clinic in Polokwane following several complaints from the public. August 22, 2016 Rethabile Clinic is under scrutiny again…
White and Indian doctors now a dying breed
3 days ago written by Grant Foster Racial quotas at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s medical school means white and Indian students in South Africa needs to outperform black students by at least 25 percentage points…
WATCH: A HOSPITAL WHERE PATIENTS STARVE
May 7, 2016 Patients at an Eastern Cape hospital are starving on meagre rations after its food supply ran out. As a result, friends and family members of some patients have been forced to take meals…
The futility of helping blacks in SA – Hospital carried away piece by piece
July 4, 2015 Mannenberg, also known by the locals as “The Chatjies”, is a coloured township on the Cape flats. It is a seriously dangerous and crime invested place where gangs like the “Americans” and…
#NightingaleMustFall: Nurses declare war on white
POSTED BY: PRAAG FEBRUARY 12, 2016 Nurses have called for the outright rejection of the white uniform synonymous with the profession for decades. According to the nurses, the uniform was “a product of apartheid and…
White nurses too proud to associate with black nurses, says SACP rep
Nkosinathi Sengwayo | 13 May, 2016 12:54 A nurse. File photo Image by: iStock Images A Mpumalanga nurse belonging to the South African Communist Part (SACP) has labelled a majority of white nurses as professionals…